A high-energy, music-based lesson where 1st graders learn to identify Primer sight words and use them to build complete sentences through interactive movement and a sentence-scramble activity.
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.
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.
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 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 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 foundational phonics lesson focusing on constructing straight-line letters L, I, and T through multisensory building, sound-sorting, and fine motor handwriting practice.
A first-grade letter recognition and formation lesson focusing on identifying uppercase and lowercase letter pairs, distinguishing visually similar letters (like b, d, p, q), and practicing correct stroke pathways.
A first-grade addition lesson focusing on visual strategies, concrete models, and counting on to solve addition facts up to 10. Includes student worksheets and formative exit tickets.
A phonics-based high-frequency word lesson focusing on orthographic mapping and heart-word strategies for 'it', 'is', 'in', and 'to'. Students map phonemes to graphemes and learn to identify regular vs. 'by heart' spelling parts.
An hour-long structured reading lesson focusing on B and W letter-sound association and common sight words. Designed with dyslexia-friendly spacing, color-coded highlights, and picture scaffolding to support struggling oral readers.