This tutorial will show you how to use UFLI's blending board with your students.

The UFLI Blending Board is a tool used in literacy instruction to help learners practice blending sounds together to form words. It typically consists of a surface with letters or letter combinations, allowing learners to visually and kinesthetically engage with the sounds and improve their reading skills.

Be sure to watch the tutorial to learn more about how to use the blending board if needed.

Free decodable AI story generator. Aligned to the scope and sequence of UFLI (but not endorsed by UFLI), Guided Phonics and Beyond (LMW) and Project Read. Enter the target sound and a story is generated featuring that sound.

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 video tutorial will walk you through how to set up these games for your students.

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. 

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.

From UFLI - "An irregular word is one that cannot be readily decoded because either:
o it includes grapheme-phoneme correspondences that are unique to that word or a few words (permanently irregular words), or
o the student has not yet learned all the grapheme-phoneme correspondences in the word (temporarily irregular words).

Contrary to popular belief, students should not be taught to memorize irregular words by sight. In most irregular words, only one or two letters do not conform to their usual sound correspondence. This means that most irregular words are at least partially decodable. Rather than relying on visual memorization, instruction in irregular words should promote students’ orthographic mapping. This means that the focus should be on connecting the letters in the word to the sounds they represent, even if the correspondence is an unusual one. To teach new irregular words, you should guide your students in
identifying the irregular part of the word—the letter or letters that don’t follow regular phonetic rules. These are the parts of irregular words that must be learned “by heart.”

Virtual Blending Board

Virtual Word Work Mats

Game Generator

"This resource is designed to assist teachers in locating decodable text from various sources that aligns with the UFLI Foundations Scope & Sequence. The UFLI Foundations decodable passages are directly linked. Other publishers’ books are listed by title next to the appropriate lesson. To use the Guide, locate the lesson/concept in the column on the left. Then, scroll to the right to locate publishers. We will be adding additional sources as we align them. Please note that inclusion in this chart does not imply endorsement of a book or set of books or a statement about the quality of the books. As with most decodable texts, few of these will be 100% decodable."

UFLI Foundations Decodables are linked directly into this guide, as well as many other decodables in the Resource Bank Decodable Reading Materials Collection.

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 program includes Home Practice sheets to help families support their child’s learning at home. This Home Support Guide explains how to use these UFLI Foundations Home Practice sheets.

The Printable Alphabet Tiles and Mat are designed to be sent home along with the Home Support Guide. Families can use these paper tiles as manipulative letters for home practice with word work. Printing them on card stock makes them easier to use."

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

The Sound Wall materials provided here align with the UFLI Foundations lessons.

Included in the UFLI Sound Wall set are the following:
o phoneme cards with mouth pictures to represent the articulatory gesture associated with each phoneme,
o labels for the sound wall displays, including the place and manner of articulation for consonants, and
o grapheme cards that can be added to the sound wall one at a time, as the grapheme-phoneme correspondences are taught.

Refer to the "Getting Ready" lessons in the UFLI Foundations manual for guidance in building the sound wall.

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