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Use these UFLI practice sheets as additional support for your students. Use them in a small groups, as a whole group, in a literacy center, or even as take home practice. Students can use these to practice their heart words and the associated phonological concepts.

These worksheets will help your students review the UFLI concepts taught in class. Each review worksheet includes:•Word Building •Sound Identification •Reading Comprehension •Vocabulary •Writing You can use these review pages in different ways: 1. SMALL GROUP CENTERAssign the related journal page in a literacy center, such as work on writing or phonics center. 2. WHOLE GROUP ACTIVITYAfter teaching your UFLI lesson, review what the students learned as a class by working on the associated journ

Support your students in developing their phonemic awareness with this engaging, hands-on beginning sounds activity. Each picture sort page offers a meaningful opportunity for learners to practice identifying and sorting initial letter sounds. Students will cut out the images and place them in the correct columns based on the beginning sound, reinforcing their understanding through active, tactile learning. Ways to Use These Practice Pages:Small Group CentresIncorporate the corresponding lesson

This word wall will help students learn their sight words. The heart words are from the UFLI program and represented with a heart. The other words are common sight words students will use daily. Suggestion: Print one copy for each student double sided and put it in a page protector for the students to keep and use.

This engaging endings & syllables word hunt resource is designed to align with UFLI lessons and provides students with meaningful practice in identifying and applying common endings and syllables. Each word hunt targets a specific ending or syllable, such as -es, -ed, -ing, open & closed syllables, compound words, closed/closed, open/closed, giving students repeated opportunities to build confidence with these essential phonics skills. Students look at the word hunt and circle the words that

This engaging VCe Word Hunt resource is designed to align with UFLI lessons #54-62 and provides students with meaningful practice in identifying and applying vowel-consonant-e (silent e) patterns. Each sound and word hunt targets a specific long vowel pattern (a_e, i_e, o_e, u_e, and e_e) while also incorporating important spelling patterns such as _ce, _ge, and common exceptions like _ve and the scribal o. This gives students repeated opportunities to build confidence with both typical an

This engaging digraph word hunt resource is designed to align with UFLI lessons and provides students with meaningful practice in identifying and applying common digraphs and ending sound patterns. Each sound and word hunt targets a specific pattern, including sh, ch, th (voiced and unvoiced), ck, ph, wh, nk, and ng, giving students repeated opportunities to build confidence with these essential phonics skills. Students look at the word hunt and circle the words that match the target digraph

This engaging short vowel resource is designed to align with UFLI lessons and provides students with meaningful practice in identifying and applying short vowel sounds. Each sound and word hunt targets a specific vowel sound, giving students repeated opportunities to build confidence with common sound patterns. Students look at the word hunt and circle the words that match the target short vowel sound. They then record the words they find and extend their learning by generating their own example

This engaging phonics resource supports students in developing early decoding and word recognition skills through a structured sound/word hunt. Students begin by identifying and circling the matching letter for a given sound. As they build confidence, they progress to circling whole words that contain the target sound. After identifying the correct sounds or words, students record their findings on the lines and extend their learning by generating their own examples. This gradual release approac

Help your students master common consonant digraphs with this engaging Digraph Picture Sort activity! Designed to support early readers, this resource provides meaningful phonics practice through sorting and categorizing words by their beginning and ending digraph sounds. Students will cut out picture cards and sort them into the correct columns based on the featured digraphs. This hands-on approach reinforces phonemic awareness, sound-letter correspondence, and vocabulary development in a fun

Use these UFLI Aligned Colour by Word sheets as additional support for your students. Use them in a small groups, as a whole group, in a literacy center, or even as take home practice. Students can use these to practice the different associated phonological concepts taught in UFLI.

Looking for an engaging, hands-on way to help your students master short vowel sounds? This Short Vowel Sound Picture Sort is the perfect tool to reinforce early phonics skills in a fun and meaningful way! This resource includes picture sort activities that focus on identifying and sorting words based on their short vowel sounds (a, e, i, o, u). Students will cut and sort images into the correct vowel sound column, supporting phonemic awareness, sound-letter recognition, and early reading devel

Give your students the hands-on practice they need to master long vowel teams with this engaging Picture Sort activity! Perfect for reinforcing phonics skills, this resource helps learners recognize common vowel team spelling patterns and connect sounds to words in a visual and meaningful way. This resource aligns with the UFLI program, with each page clearly labeled by its corresponding lesson number for easy integration.  Students cut and sort picture cards onto mats labeled with long vowel te

Help your students master those tricky r-controlled vowels with this fun and interactive Picture Sort activity! Designed to strengthen decoding and spelling skills, this resource gives learners hands-on practice sorting words with the ar, er, ir, or, ur, and w+or patterns. This resource aligns with the UFLI program, with each page clearly labeled by its corresponding lesson number for easy integration. Students will cut and sort picture cards onto the matching r-controlled vowel mats, helping t

Help your students strengthen their phonics and word recognition skills with this interactive Endings and Syllables Picture Sort! This resource aligns with the UFLI program, with each page clearly labeled by its corresponding lesson number for easy integration. This resource gives students hands-on practice identifying word endings and sorting words by the types of syllables, building a strong foundation for reading fluency and spelling. Students cut and sort picture cards onto sorting mats base

Give your students hands-on practice identifying common spelling patterns and word endings with this engaging Picture Sort activity! This resource aligns with the UFLI program, with each page clearly labeled by its corresponding lesson number for easy integration. Perfect for phonics instruction, literacy centres, and small-group work, this resource helps students visually connect word patterns to sounds by sorting pictures into their matching spelling categories. This activity focuses on high-f

Support your students in mastering the magic of the VCe (vowel-consonant-e) pattern with this engaging, hands-on Picture Sort! This resource aligns with the UFLI program, with each page clearly labeled by its corresponding lesson number for easy integration. This resource helps students distinguish long vowel sounds spelled with a silent e, building foundational phonics skills through meaningful visual practice. This resource also covers some of the exceptions to those rules. Students will cut

Each activity mat is to help students review key concepts when they return to school after the summer. Some literacy concepts include:•Alphabetic knowledge •Short vowels and consonants •Digraphs •Vowel teams •Prefixes, suffixes and affixes •Nouns, verbs and adjectives Some math concepts include:•Counting •2D shapes and 3D solids •Addition & subtraction •Multiplication & division •Skip counting •Fractions •Probability •Financial literacy Note: • Kindergarten Review should be used in Septembe

These Short Vowel O Task Cards are UFLI inspired and implement the Science of Reading. There are two ways to use them; a whole class scavenger hunt or small group Literacy Centers. What's included: - Instructions - Full colour half page option - Black & White half page option - Full colour quarter page option - Black & White quarter page option - Scavenger Hunt Template

These Short Vowel I Task Cards are UFLI inspired and implement the Science of Reading. There are two ways to use them; a whole class scavenger hunt or small group Literacy Centers. What's included: - Instructions - Full colour half page option - Black & White half page option - Full colour quarter page option - Black & White quarter page option - Scavenger Hunt Template