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Everything you need to hit the ground running. Before you open a single lesson, read through this section to understand how the program...
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Part One: Getting Ready to Read
Unit 1: Phonological Awareness and Prewriting
Children begin by tuning their ears to the sounds around them. Through listening games, sound discrimination, and sequencing activities,...
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Part One: Getting Ready to Read
Unit 2: Playing with Rhymes + Prewriting
Rhyme makes language feel like play and it's also an important skill for learning to read. This unit explores rhyme recognition, rhyme...
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Part One: Getting Ready to Read
Unit 3: Syllables + Prewriting Skills (coming soon!)
Children learn to hear the "beats" inside words, starting with easy compound words and building toward blending, segmenting, and counting...
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Part One: Getting Ready to Read
Unit 4: The Alphabetic Principal + Learning Your Name (coming soon!)
The program culminates in the big idea: letters represent sounds. Children explore letters in the world around them, learn to recognize...
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Part Two: Learning the Alphabet
Unit 5: Getting Ready A-J + Uppercase Letters (optional, in progress)
Based on UFLI's Getting Ready sequence, this optional bridge unit prepares children for formal phonics instruction. Learners solidify...
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Part Two: Learning the Alphabet
Unit 6: Putting it Together! Part 1 (in progress)
Based on UFLI Foundations lessons 1–10, this unit introduces children to their first letter-sound correspondences (starting with a, m, s,...
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Part Two: Learning the Alphabet
Unit 7: Putting it Together! Part 2 (in progress)
This unit (UFLI lessons 11–23) introduces more letters (d, c, u, g, b, e, k, and h) along with the remaining short vowels, the word...
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Part Two: Learning the Alphabet
Unit 8: Putting it Together! Part 3 (in progress)
This unit completes the full alphabet (UFLI lessons 24–34) with the letters r, l, w, j, y, x, qu, v, and z. By the end, children have a...
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Extra Resources
Games
Learning to read should feel like play. This section is home to free games and activities that can help reinforce the skills from each...