This document provides information on supporting students with complex communication needs to develop early reading skills. It discusses assessment and teaching of emergent readers and conventional readers. For emergent readers, it focuses on teaching the alphabet and phonological awareness through activities like letter of the week, alphabet books/songs, word sorts, and incidental teaching. For conventional readers, it discusses assessing and teaching word identification and developmental spelling through activities like word walls, word sorts, and making words. The overall goal is to help students learn to crack the alphabetic code through a balanced literacy approach.