Adding, deleting, and substituting individual sounds within spoken words to develop advanced phonological awareness. Strengthens the mental processing required for decoding and encoding complex language structures.
A comprehensive 1-page teacher reference guide featuring a step-by-step whiteboard word chain transitioning between hard 'g', soft 'g', and '-dge' words for 2nd grade. Includes explicit teacher scripts, visual board mockups, and quick-reference phonics rules.
A comprehensive teacher-facing oral assessment checklist for Kindergarten students, designed to track phoneme substitution skills by changing ending sounds. Includes a script, 10 word pairs, and observation notes.
A comprehensive vocabulary and morphology curriculum covering prefixes, suffixes, Latin roots, and Greek roots through fill-in-the-blank exercises and engaging word puzzles.
A collection of decodable passages and activities aligned with UFLI Foundations, focusing on systematic phonics and heart word acquisition. Each lesson centers on a specific phonics skill and accompanying "heart words" to build reading fluency.
A comprehensive program for teaching phonological awareness to secondary ELLs, focusing on multisyllabic academic vocabulary and phoneme manipulation.
A focused phonics unit targeting the long 'u' silent 'e' pattern (u_e) including both /ju/ and /u/ sounds, along with high-frequency heart words 'one' and 'once'.
A focused phonics unit targeting the long 'o' silent 'e' pattern (o_e) and high-frequency heart words 'brother', 'mother', and 'father' through narrative reading and orthographic mapping.
A focused phonics unit targeting the long 'i' silent 'e' pattern (i_e) and high-frequency heart words 'by' and 'my' through narrative reading and orthographic mapping.
A 5-day phonics unit focusing on the -ng word families (ang, ing, ong, ung) and the heart word 'or', set in a regal, castle-themed environment. Students explore word mapping, word chains, and reading passages to master these nasal glued sounds.
A deep-space exploration of R-controlled vowels, multisyllabic decoding, and nonsense word mastery for 4th-grade ELA. Students learn to segment and build complex words using the 'Bossy R' patterns.
A comprehensive year-long scope and sequence for Voyager Sopris Passport Book C, designed for a four-day-a-week intervention schedule from mid-August to mid-May.
A comprehensive preschool literacy program designed around Deeper Learning principles. It focuses on developmentally appropriate stages from oral language to emergent writing, using play-based exploration and authentic communication.
A 1st-grade ELA sequence focused on the musicality of poetry. Students explore rhythm, beat, syllable structure, and line breaks through kinetic movement, robot talk, and choral performance.
A Kindergarten ELA sequence focused on identifying and creating sound devices in poetry, specifically onomatopoeia and alliteration. Students move from listening to environment sounds to creating their own alliterative characters and a collective class sound book.
A foundational phonics lesson focused on identifying and writing short vowel sounds in CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words through visual identification.
A comprehensive set of Science of Reading based activities focusing on geological vocabulary through phoneme-grapheme mapping, syllable division, and morphological analysis.
A comprehensive literacy lesson where students act as Sound Detectives to master phoneme isolation and decoding. Students will practice identifying beginning, middle, and ending sounds in 3-4 phoneme words, including those with blends and digraphs.
A quick, comprehensive assessment of 1st-grade phonemic awareness skills including isolation, blending, segmenting, and manipulation.
A foundational phonics station focused on CVC word decoding, blending, and word chaining to support 2nd-grade students working on early literacy skills.
This lesson focuses on phonemic awareness through the manipulation of sounds, specifically reversing phonemes in one-syllable words to build foundational reading and spelling skills.
An engaging set of 10 standard word ladder activities designed for incoming 5th graders to master complex spelling patterns, vowel teams, silent letters, and consonant blends through playful, self-paced trail puzzles.
A comprehensive packet of fill-in-the-blank sentences for Unit 4 through Unit 8 of the Letter Name-Alphabetic stage, designed for first-grade literacy practice with word banks and randomized sort ordering.
A 90-minute professional development session for K-8 teachers focused on vertical alignment of Arizona ELA standards, academic vocabulary, and transferable engagement strategies.
A collection of hands-on activities for first graders to master decoding and building CVC words using a construction site theme. Students will map sounds, slide phonemes, and sort words to build a strong reading foundation.
A playful introduction to spoonerisms and creative rhyming inspired by Shel Silverstein's Runny Babbit. Students will learn to swap initial sounds to create whimsical new words and poems.
A comprehensive phonemic awareness lesson focusing on identifying beginning sounds, blending, segmenting, and manipulating phonemes through a detective-themed 'Sound Squad' approach.
