These games can help students practice specific skills from specific lessons in the UFLI scope and sequence.
You can select words from the specific lessons you are working on, or the ones that students need more practice with, etc.

Be sure to look at the resource on how to use these games if you need more direction!

This document shows a sample schedule for a 110-minute language block. It’s important to note that this schedule should shift across the school year to better meet students’ changing needs. For example, focus may shift more to multisyllabic word reading and spelling.

Half-Pint Kids is a set of materials written by a teacher for teachers. Besides colorfully illustrated decodable stories, you will find links to Teaching Guides, Activity Pages and Literacy Centers.

Table of Contents:
- Level A: Sights & Sounds (Sets 1-6) introduces all the consonant sounds, short vowel sounds and 33 sight words
- Level B: Blends & Ends (Sets 7-12) introduces 16 blends and digraphs, 24 sight words and 4 word endings
- Level C: Moving-A-long (Sets 13-18) introduces the long vowel sounds, 9 blends, 46 sight words, 4 word endings and more.

These charts will allow you to easily compare and integrate different Structured Literacy resources. The charts align UFLI and RazPlus, QPS, Phoneme & Grapheme Mapping Book, Silver Moon, SPIRE and Natlie Lynn Readers. 

A Multi-Tiered Systems of Support is the delivery system for evidence-based instruction. Use these pre-created slides (with speaker notes) to support professional learning in your board or school. The presentation outlines key elements of MTSS.

Note that this resource is a Google Drive folder set to “view only.” To adapt the slides to meet your own students’ needs, please make a copy to your own Google Drive so you can modify (File > Make a copy > Entire presentation).

Explore this "Dear Dr. Mooney" series. Find articles on:
- Phonology - What’s That Sound I Hear?
- Morphology - Teach Your Students to be Word Detectives
- Syntax - It’s All About Understanding the Formula for English
- Semantics - Your Words Mean More Than You Think They Do
- Pragmatics - Doing Things with Language

Each article provides information, implementation strategies and links to related resources.

The Language Literacy Network (Wasowicz, 2021; 2024) highlights how spoken and written language processes work together to support reading and writing.

Based on 30+ years of research, it focuses on key areas like reading comprehension, writing, and word-level decoding.

Building on Dr. Hollis Scarborough’s Reading Rope model, it updates and expands the original framework to reflect recent findings, emphasizing the link between decoding, spelling, and the reciprocal nature of reading and writing.

Download the infographic!

Wasowicz, J. (2021, December 9). Re: The Language Literacy Network: Move over Reading Rope, make room for your better half…! [Electronic mailing list message]. SPELLTalk Listserv. https://lists.learningbydesign.com/mailman/listinfo/spelltalk

This downloadable document offers an extensive alphabetical list of Greek and Latin roots outlining: the root, meaning in English, language origin (Greek or Latin), etymology (root origin) and English examples.

This resource attached below as a PDF provides progressions from the lowest to the most complex skill for the skills of:phonological awarenessphonicsvocabularyfluencyreading comprenshion 

This self-reflection tool is designed to ensure that teaching practices are aligned with Structure Literacy. The user is encouraged to note (by checking off the boxes) all areas they are currently putting into practice. The completed reflection can then be used with the principal or the leadership team to set targets for professional learning, professional growth, and/or a plan for Structured Literacy implementation.  The goal is to ensure all areas identified are implemented within the classroom. Adopted from The Reading League’s Curriculum Evaluation Tool https://www.thereadingleague.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Curriculum-Evaluation-Tool-August-2020.pdf

Have your students use the downloadable worksheet to mix and match morphemes to create words.

prefixes
suffixes
roots
syntax
examples

This 15 minute video explores how to leverage mini lessons to have great impact on learning for your students. Templates are provided for planning mini lessons as well. Mini lessons truly change (and set you and your students up to win) the game.

This resource provides a structured approach to teaching vocabulary through understanding word parts.

The resource covers:
*Introduction: Differentiates between active and passive vocabulary, discusses motivation for teaching morphology, and explains terminology.
*First Level Morphology: Focuses on Anglo-Saxon base words, affixes, and parts of speech.
*Second Level Morphology: Explores Latin bases, affixes, lesson elements, and distinctions between suffixes and final stable syllables.
*Advanced Elements: Introduces Greek templates, combining forms, and assimilated prefixes.

This resource aims to enhance vocabulary acquisition by dissecting word structures and origins, offering both foundational and advanced strategies for educators.

Free use of this fabulous site is extended (again!) through the 2022-2023 school year.

Here's how it works:
- Click on on any book cover offered to begin reading.
- Use the book’s homework button to open a downloadable homework packet.
- Use the book's SMART Board button to download SMART Board files that are designed to assist you in the delivery of Flyleaf’s Foundational Skill and Close Reading Guide instruction.

Table of Contents:
- Emergent Reader Series - Part 1: VC, CVC Words
- Part 2: CCVCC Words (Blends)
- Part 3: Compound Words
- Part 4: Multisyllabic Words
- Part 5: Words with Endings
- Reading Series One - Part 6: Foundational Skills Consolidation
- Reading Series Two - Part 7: Consonant Digraphs
- Part 8: Long Vowels with Silent e
- Part 9: Single Long Vowels & Patterns & Soft c and g
- Part 10: r - Controlled Vowels
- Reading Series Three - Part 11: Vowel Digraphs
- Part 12: Variant Vowel Digraphs
- Part 13: Diphthongs
- Part 14: Advanced Letter-Sound Correspondences

120 lessons start with introducing letters and letter sounds. Then students read and write words like “cat” and “fib.” Students learn more sophisticated phonics, affixes, and spellings, in a step-by-step way. By the end, they are reading and writing words like “communication” and “chrysanthemum.”

This site is full of resources about literacy for parents and their children. Information is divided into birth-Prek, K-3, 4-6 and 7-12.

Each section contains informational sites for parents, as well as activities students can do at home to improve their literacy skills.

These free lessons are designed to help teachers, parents, guardians, and tutors support children with phonemic awareness over the summer.

What an amazing way to fill some gaps or get a jump on the year ahead! There are 6 weeks of lessons.

There are lessons to be downloaded (you will need to sign up - it's free!), video lessons to support you and even a letter to send to parents to explain the program and how they can use it at home.

This is really great!

This is a fabulous read aloud routine to use with practically any age of students. This routine takes about a half hour while reading one passage.

This routine can help build language comprehension, fluency, vocabulary and background knowledge.

This extensive 204 page classroom guide will help teachers structure explicit and effective interventions for students in grades 4-9 (following the Science of Reading).

Recommendations include:
*build decoding skills
*purposeful fluency-building activities
*comprehension-building practices
*build world and word knowledge
*question opportunities
*teach "gist" summary skills
*teach to monitor
*practice practice