Are you looking for a sentence writing resource that aligns with a phonics program? This Simple Sentence Construction activity aligns with the scope and sequence of the UFLI Foundations Phonics Program.

These worksheets supports the skill of sentence construction whilst being aligned with the students phonics UFLI lessons. It challenges your students to construct a simple decodable sentence using a visual support and their knowledge of letters and sounds.

This resource provides teachers with an opportunity to reinforce those phonics skills, whilst also teaching vocabulary and syntax. Vocabulary provides the essential knowledge of what the word means, whilst syntax is the way we organize words into meaningful sentences.

Note: this is not a resource on how to teach sentence writing sentences although the prompts loosely follow The Writing Revolution. If you need an explicit systematic sequential program that teaches, “subject, verb, object” or follows the “who, what, where, when, why” then try these products here: Syntax & Sentence Structure Unit | TWR | COMPLETE KINDERGARTEN BUNDLE.

Each sheet contains a colored picture, writing prompts to help the student think about what they might include in their sentence and space for the student to write a sentence.

No prep required, just print and go. These activities align with many phonics programs as well as the UFLI Foundations Scope and Sequence Lessons 42 to 53. These games also align with Literacy Hub Phase 7 and 8.

NOTE: This product is not endorsed by UFLI Foundations nor is it affiliated in any way. No part of this product copies any material found in the UFLI manual or the UFLI toolbox.

Contents

This activity contains:

• Components of a Sentence (1 page): This sheet describes the who, what doing, what, description, location, when, why etc. This sheet contains visuals/images to help the student link the part of the a sentence to a visual for easy reference. Explain/teach your student each component separately and use the images/visuals to help the student connect it to the components.

• Sentence Expansion Prompts (1 page): This sheet provides blank spaces for the student to write: who, what, when, where, how and why etc. This sheet provides examples of structure of a sentence for the student to use as a scaffold, i.e. When? Who/what?  (did) What? How? Where? Why?

• Writing Sentences Worksheets (17 pages): these are worksheets with color pictures, writing space and writing prompts. Each worksheet links to a UFLI lesson 42 to 53 and builds upon previous lessons.

• You will receive a PDF file which you can save securely and print or display on screen.

• You have an option to download the slides using Google Slides™. These are not editable slides. You will need to “Make a Copy” to copy the file to your own Google Drive.

Scope and Sequence:

This resource is aligned with the scope and sequence of the UFLI Foundations Phonics program Lessons 42 to 53 – FLSZ and Digraphs. It may also be used for other systematic synthetic phonics programs that focus on FLSZ and Digraphs. This means that the image has been carefully selected so that the student will be exposed to words with the target phonics sound, i.e. “cling” for lesson 51 digraph /ng/. It may also include sounds from prior lessons, i.e. /th/ “sloth”, /ch/ “branch”.

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