A collection of visual anchor charts and posters for UFLI foundations heart words, designed to support students in orthographic mapping with clear visuals and phonetic cues.
A kindergarten lesson focused on teaching young writers how to share their work proudly and listen attentively to their peers, utilizing structured sentence stems and active sharing routines.
A playful, active kindergarten lesson that introduces students to the two families of the alphabet: vowels (A, E, I, O, U) and consonants. Through music, interactive card sorting, and hands-on magnetic letter games, students learn to distinguish between these two letter types.
A kindergarten writing lesson introducing essential tools (crayons, pencils, folders), classroom routines for managing supplies, and an open-ended free drawing and labeling task.
A kindergarten writing lesson teaching students how writers use labels to help readers understand their drawings, featuring oral naming of school objects and a drawing task with labels.
A third-grade reading comprehension lesson focused on standard RL.2 (learning target: explaining how character actions and details teach the lesson/moral) using the story "Do Not Drop". Students analyze Yuka's choices and their consequences to discover the story's core lesson.
A kindergarten lesson focusing on comparing and matching uppercase and lowercase letters through sensory play, a movement-based matching game, and a Mo Willems inspired interactive read-aloud.
A high-energy, visual lesson for Kindergarten students to learn the relationship between uppercase and lowercase letters through sensory tracing, matching games, and literature.
A foundational writing lesson for early learners exploring how pictures can tell stories. Students practice speaking in complete sentences before drawing themselves doing an activity at school.
A hands-on, multi-sensory lesson focusing on diagonal strokes and letters A, V, and W. Students use gross motor paths, tactile building mats, and structured worksheets to master slanted lines.
A formative assessment lesson targeting chronological retelling (3.RL.2) using the realistic fiction passage 'Language Liftoff' with a Dysart-themed blue and green styling.
A comprehensive kindergarten writing lesson plan and supporting materials designed to teach students that writers write about what they know, starting with their school. It includes a detailed teacher guide, interactive slide deck, student drawing and writing worksheet, visual anchor chart, and oral practice flashcards.
A lesson focused on teaching students how to ask and answer who, what, where, when, why, and how questions using a progression of student-friendly learning targets.
Focuses on VC & CVC practice across all learned sounds, featuring the decodable story 'I See'. Students practice reading, tracking with dots, and identifying characters.
Focuses on the short vowel sound /ĕ/ with the decodable story 'Ten on the Bed'. Students practice reading words with short e and tracking with dots.
Focuses on the consonant sound /b/ with the decodable story 'A Bug on the Bus'. Students practice tracking, blending, and CVC reading.
Focuses on the consonant sound /g/ with the decodable story 'Gus the Dog'. Students practice tracking, blending, and CVC reading.
Focuses on the short vowel sound /ŭ/ with the decodable story 'The Pup'. Students practice reading, tracking with dots, and blending.
Focuses on the consonant sound /k/ represented by letter c, with the decodable story 'The Cat Can'. Students practice reading, tracking with dots, and blending.
Focuses on the consonant sound /d/ with the decodable story 'Sid and Dad'. Students practice tracking, blending, and CVC reading.
Focuses on the short vowel sound /ŏ/ with the decodable story 'Tom and the Fan'. Students practice reading words with short o and tracking with dots.
A foundational early childhood lesson introducing students to the 52 letters of the alphabet, focusing on recognizing, matching, and sorting uppercase and lowercase letter pairs through multi-sensory playground activities, interactive slides, and a classic read-aloud.
Focuses on the nasalized sound of a (am, an) with the decodable story 'Sam and Pam'. Students practice tracking, blending, and illustrating.
Focuses on CVC practice with vowels a and i, featuring the decodable story 'The Pit'. Students practice reading, tracking with dots, and illustrating scenes.
Focuses on the consonant sound /n/ with the decodable story 'The Pin in the Map'. Students practice reading words with short i, a, and n.
Focuses on the short vowel sound /ĭ/ with the decodable story 'I Sit, I Tap'. Students practice reading words with short i and tracking with dots.
A foundational Kindergarten writing lesson where students discover that writers tell about things they know, starting with their school. Students practice oral sentence stems and create drawings representing their school environment, which teachers support by labeling using dictation.
A lesson designed for second graders to distinguish between key details (character, setting, key plot points) and unimportant extra details (fluff) using a fun mystery detective theme.
A foundational phonics lesson focusing on reading words with consonant blends and digraphs. This lesson includes differentiated flashcards designed for emerging readers, ELLs, and fluency practice.
A comprehensive Kindergarten phonics and fine-motor lesson focusing on straight-line letters H, h, and reviewing l, t. Students learn capital vs. lowercase distinctions, engage in tactile letter-building, and explore initial sounds through an interactive Circle Map of 'hat', 'house', and 'lamp'.