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A five-day scaffolded writing sequence designed for special education students to master foundational sentence construction. Students progress from visual who and what sentence parts to complete sentences with capital letters and periods.

A focused early literacy phonics lesson targeting beginning consonant blends with short i and short e vowel sounds. Features choral blending slides, an engaging two-page practice worksheet, 16 printable task cards, and a teacher facilitation guide with auditory discrimination drills.

A comprehensive 1-page teacher facilitation guide featuring pacing, articulation cues for short i versus short e, auditory minimal pairs drills, differentiation, and answer keys.

A 4-day instructional sequence based on UFLI Lesson 66 covering open and closed syllables, the irregular heart word friend, decodable text reading, fluency practice, and nonsense word assessment.

Students master full sentence boundaries by placing stop-sign ending periods and writing complete sentences from start to finish. A cumulative celebration activity solidifies independent writing skills.

A set of 16 printable cut-out phonics task cards for centers and small groups, featuring sound-button blending, missing short vowels, blend switches, and decodable sentence reading.

A comprehensive multi-week phonics curriculum for Fundations Level 3 Units 1 and 2, covering closed syllables, orthographic spelling conventions, closed syllable exceptions, and suffix additions through systematic word ladders and teacher facilitation guides.

Students learn that every sentence begins with a tall capital letter through visual size comparisons and color-coded starting prompts. Targeted practice reinforces consistent uppercase sentence openings.

A 2-page print-ready practice worksheet with sound-button tapping, short i versus short e word sorting, beginning blend building, and decodable sentence illustration.

A three-part instructional sequence designed for late second-grade readers to master recalling key story details and sequencing events chronologically. Through hands-on story clue cards, signal-word sorting games, and a cooperative retell board quest, students progress from identifying story elements to independently delivering structured narrative retells.

Students connect who and what sentence parts into complete core sentences using structured visual sentence strips. Scaffolded matching and guided writing reinforce subject-verb pairing.

Interactive direct instruction slide deck for choral blending, comparing short i and short e vowel sounds, and reading beginning blend words and decodable sentences.