“UFLI is a phonics curriculum that provides explicit and systematic instruction for early reading skills. The program is designed to help students develop foundational reading and spelling abilities by teaching them to decode words and use a structured, sequential approach to learning letter-sound relationships.”

Every morning in our class we practice new letter sounds, how to write them properly on a line, and how to spell and sound out words. We’re practicing how to slow down, listen to how many sounds there are in a word, and to write down every single sound we hear. We’ve also been practicing “heart words” like “the”, “is”, “said”, and more. These are words that cannot be sounded out and words that we need to remember in our heart. Practicing these skills have helped us slow down in our journal writing and allowed us to be better writers and readers!