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Recent discussions occurring online, in journals, and at conferences are creating uncertainties about what phonological awareness instruction will be most effective with which children. This guide addresses some of these questions by using what we currently know from the scientific research, from teacher experiences, and from observations in clinical teaching environments for children who struggle with reading.

The outline of the resource includes:
Section 1. Reading Research, Instructional Practice, and Phoneme Awareness
1.1 When should reading research influence instructional practices?
1.2 What is Phonological Awareness? Why is it Important?
Section 2. The Who, When, What, and How of Teaching Phonemic Awareness
2.1 Who needs to be taught phoneme awareness?
2.2 When should phonological awareness instruction begin?
2.3 What phonemic awareness skills should be taught?
2.4 How should phonological awareness instruction begin?
2.5 How much phonological awareness time should involve phonemic awareness activities?
2.6 Is there any value in beginning phonological awareness instruction with larger units, such
as syllables?
2.7 Do onset-rime activities have a role in early phonemic awareness instruction?
2.8 What are manipulatives and how can I use them when teaching phoneme awareness?
2.9 Is it important to teach phoneme awareness with tasks like phoneme deletion and
substitution?
Using sound chains to teach phoneme awareness

These videos were created to help you implement UFLI Foundations, a systematic and explicit program for teaching foundational reading skills.

Learn how to implement the 8 step routine. "Steps 1 through 4 serve as a warm-up and review of previously taught concepts. Step 5 is an explicit introduction to a new concept including guided practice reading and spelling words. Steps 6 through 8 are opportunities to apply concepts through reading and writing activities at the word and text level."

*Implementation overview
*Slide Deck Tutorial
*Day 1 Lessons (phonemic awareness, visual drill, auditory drill, blending drill, new concept)
*Day 2 Lessons (new concept review, word work, irregular or heart words, reading & writing connected text)
*Progress Monitoring & Implementation

The UFLI Foundations Toolbox contains all the lesson resources to accompany the lesson plans provided in the UFLI Foundations manual. Every lesson has companion resources that will help you implement the lessons efficiently, effectively, and consistently.

Some of the companion lesson resources you will find below include:

Lesson slide decks
Decodable passages
Home practice activities
Games and activities for additional practice

112 excellent lessons and supports!

Lesson Planning & Implementation Support

Heart Word Cards

Sound Wall Cards

Grapheme Cards

Word Work Mat

Printable Alphabet Tiles and Mat

Compiled Lesson Resources

There are great tutorials here to support teachers on using a variety of activities from UFLI, including:

*Word Work Mats

*Phoneme & Grapheme Activities (blending, elkonin boxes, manipulative letters, counting bead string, say it-move it, sorting game)

*Decoding & Encoding (morpheme trees, syllable types, heart words, word chains, practice)

The Virtual Teaching Resource Hub was developed to assist teachers as they explore new ways to teach foundational reading skills using technology. This site has tools for reading instruction and intervention with children in the elementary grade levels.

*Lesson structure
*Instructional activities
*managing behaviour
*tech tools and tips
*webinar series

"The Virtual Teaching Resource Hub was developed to assist teachers as they explore new ways to teach foundational reading skills using technology. This site has tools for reading instruction and intervention with children in the elementary grade levels.

The materials here are designed to be used with video conferencing platforms for distance education and with interactive whiteboards in the classroom. The activities can also be used if you are creating video lessons for asynchronous lessons."

Resources include:
*Lesson templates, sample lessons
*Instructional activities
*Tips for managing behaviour
*Tech tools and tips
*PD - for Teaching Reading Online - 6 part web series
*Tutorials
*FAQs

Join in this interactive phonological awareness and phonics lesson which includes embedded teacher training.
Have you ever wondered what distinguishes phonological awareness and phonics? What about what makes them related? Those questions will be answered using straightforward mnemonics and examples that will help you teach students these skills more easily.

Students will observe and practice production of three letter sounds (phonemes) and learn associated letters (graphemes). The lesson incorporates structured literacy principles in fun, student-friendly games appropriate for tier 1, 2, and 3 instruction. Students advance from phonological awareness to pure phonics practice while also building background knowledge. This lesson is aligned to the Sprouting Sounds and Veggie Village games in WORD Force.

Reading 101 is a self-paced professional development course for K-3 teachers, developed by Reading Rockets. The program provides teachers with an in-depth knowledge of reading and writing so they are prepared to guide their students into becoming skilled and enthusiastic readers and writers.
Course Modules include:
- Print Awareness
- Phonological and Phonemic Awareness
- Phonics
- Fluency
- Vocabulary
- Spelling
- Comprehension
- Writing
- Assessment

Word Connections is a supplemental reading intervention program.

It includes 40 lessons (40 min each), divided into four units of instruction.

Developed for students in third grade and above who continue to experience challenges with word reading even though they have developed foundational decoding skills.

The lessons focus on promoting automaticity with reading “big words.”