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Welcome to Learning Takes Root!
I believe that real learning doesn't just happen — it takes root. It grows, deepens, and lasts. That's the heart behind every resource I create.
At Learning Takes Root, you'll find thoughtfully designed, standards-aligned materials built for educators who hold high expectations for their students. Whether you're teaching the littlest learners or guiding older students through complex concepts, my resources are crafted to meet rigorous academic standards without sacrificing engagement.
I know your time is precious. Every product in this store is classroom-ready, clearly organized, and designed to actually work — so you can spend less time prepping and more time doing what you do best: teaching.
Here's what you can expect when you shop with me:
*Standards-aligned resources across multiple grade levels
*Rigorous content that challenges students and supports mastery
*Clean, teacher-friendly formatting that's easy to implement
*Materials that grow with your students — because deep learning is the goal
Whether you're building foundational skills or pushing students toward higher-order thinking, you'll find resources here that plant the seeds for lasting academic success.
Thank you for stopping by — I'm so glad you're here. Let's grow something great together.
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UFLI Aligned MEGA Bundle - 10 Helpful Resources to Print and Go
Everything you need to teach, organize, review, and send home UFLI phonics — in one complete, print-and-go bundle. 10 resources covering all 128 UFLI Foundations lessons, built from the ground up to match the scope and sequence, the heart word coding, and the structured literacy approach that makes UFLI so effective. What's included... 📖 Decodable Stories — Lessons 1–128 128 original decodable stories — one per lesson — with 8 decodable sentences, heart words in red, a comprehension question,
K - 3rd
Balanced Literacy, Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Science of Reading
UFLI Aligned Readers Theater Scripts | Lessons 35–120 | Color + Black & White
Readers theater brings phonics practice to life — and when every single word is decodable using patterns your students have already learned, they experience real reading success right in front of the class. This set includes 86 original scripts, one for every UFLI Foundations lesson from 35 to 120, in both color and black and white. Just print, assign parts, and watch your students read with confidence. What's included... 86 original readers theater scripts — one per lesson — each including: 5 r
K - 2nd
Balanced Literacy, Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Science of Reading
Also included in: UFLI Aligned MEGA Bundle - 10 Helpful Resources to Print and Go
ZAP IT! Short Vowels BUNDLE | UFLI Lessons 35-41 | Phonics Card Games |
📝 DESCRIPTION ⚡ 7 games. All 5 short vowels. One irresistible bundle your students will beg to play every single center time.ZAP It! is the fast-paced card game where kids draw a card, read the word, and keep it — until someone draws a ZAP! and loses everything. The suspense keeps every player locked in and reading on every single turn. No passive play. Pure phonics practice disguised as fun. This money-saving bundle gives you all 7 ZAP It! games covering every short vowel lesson in the UFLI
K - 1st
Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Science of Reading
Harry Potter Complete Series — Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Review Game Bundle
Your students are going to lose their minds! This is the complete Harry Potter series review game bundle — all seven books, all seven games, each one fully designed and ready to play the moment you open it. Every game brings the full Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? experience into your classroom. A live prize ladder climbs to $1,000,000 on every slide. Three lifelines keep the whole class involved even when it's not their turn. Questions escalate from easy to hard so every student stays engaged
3rd - 5th
Literature, Novel Studies
UFLI Aligned Dots & Boxes | Partner Game | Lessons 35–128 | Science of Reading
Are you using UFLI Foundations and looking for a fun, no-prep partner game to supplement your phonics lessons? This Dots & Boxes word reading game covers every lesson from 35 to 128 — giving you a ready-to-use phonics center for the entire school year.Students take turns drawing lines between dots. When a player closes a box, they read the word inside out loud, color the box, and take another turn. It's engaging, simple to learn, and keeps every student reading real decodable words and heart wor
K - 3rd
Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Science of Reading
Also included in: UFLI Aligned MEGA Bundle - 10 Helpful Resources to Print and Go
CVC Short Vowel Phonics Game | Go Fish & Memory Match | UFLI Lessons 35-41
⭐ Are you looking for a CVC phonics game you can teach ONCE and students play ALL YEAR? This print-and-laminate Go Fish & Memory Match bundle gives K-2 students hands-on short vowel practice — no prep after the first lamination! Aligned to UFLI Foundations Lessons 35-41 and the Science of Reading. Works with any structured literacy or phonics program. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ WHAT'S INCLUDED (13 pages) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ★ 45 color-coded CVC word cards with clip
K - 2nd
Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Science of Reading
Monthly Writing Portfolio | 2 Prompts for each month August – June
📋 This writing portfolio covers the ENTIRE school year — August through June — with 2 creative writing prompts per month and primary ruled lines. Perfect for morning work, writing centers, whole class instruction, or assessments!This 22-page print-and-go writing portfolio gives your students a meaningful writing experience every month. Each page features a fun, seasonal writing prompt, a large illustration box for drawing, and authentic primary ruled lines. What's Included:22 black & white pa
K - 2nd
Creative Writing, Writing
UFLI Aligned File Folder Labels for Lessons 1-128 (Avery 5260)
Finally — organized, color-coded file folder labels for every single UFLI lesson. Print on Avery 5260 label sheets, stick them on, and your materials are sorted and ready to go. No more digging through piles to find the right lesson. Every folder labeled, every unit color-coded, everything exactly where it should be. What's included... 128 labels — one for every UFLI Foundations lesson — formatted to print perfectly on Avery 5260 label sheets (30 labels per sheet, 5 sheets total). Each label inc
K - 2nd
Balanced Literacy, Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Science of Reading
Also included in: UFLI Aligned MEGA Bundle - 10 Helpful Resources to Print and Go
UFLI Aligned Flashcards with Spelling Pattern and Heart Words for Lessons 1-128
The fastest five minutes of your literacy block just got better. These UFLI-aligned flashcards put the exact phonics words and heart words from every lesson right in your students' hands — ready to cut, practice, and master. No prep. No searching. Just fluency practice that actually matches what you taught today. What's included... 94 ready-to-print pages — one per lesson from 35 to 128 — each featuring: 10 phonics word cards auto-sized so every word fills the card clearlyHeart word cards for th
K - 6th
Reading, Science of Reading
Also included in: UFLI Aligned MEGA Bundle - 10 Helpful Resources to Print and Go
UFLI Aligned Decodable Passages with Spelling & Heart Words Lessons 1-128
You have found the "holy grail" of decodable reading practice that actually matches your UFLI lessons. 128 ready-to-go student pages, one for every lesson in the UFLI Foundations scope and sequence, from the very first letter sounds all the way to complex suffixes and spelling rules. ✦ The problem it solves... You follow UFLI faithfully — but finding reading practice that's truly aligned to each week's exact phonics skill and heart words? That's the gap. This resource fills it completely. Every
K - 3rd
Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Reading, Science of Reading
Also included in: UFLI Aligned MEGA Bundle - 10 Helpful Resources to Print and Go
Heart Words Aligned to UFLI Lessons 35-120 with Sentences on the Back
📝 Description Finally — UFLI-aligned heart word flashcards that go beyond just the word.If you teach using UFLI Foundations, you know heart words need more than repetition. Students need to understand the irregular parts, connect the word to its sounds, and see it used in context. These double-sided flashcards do all three — and they're the only set that includes the UFLI lesson number on every single card. What Makes These Different?✅ 100% aligned to UFLI Foundations — only permanently irr
K - 2nd
Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Science of Reading, Sight Words
UFLI Aligned Word Searches With Phonics Skill Focus and Heart Words 1-128
Your students just finished their UFLI lesson — now give them a word search that actually matches what they learned. Not random words. Not generic puzzles. Every single word in every single search comes directly from the phonics words and heart words for that exact UFLI lesson. What's included... 128 word search pages — one for every lesson from 1 to 128 — each featuring: A 12×12 letter grid with words hidden across, down, and diagonallyPhonics words for the lesson printed in blue below the grid
K - 3rd
Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Reading, Science of Reading
Also included in: UFLI Aligned MEGA Bundle - 10 Helpful Resources to Print and Go
UFLI Aligned Phonics Game - Who Wants to Be a Word Expert - Lessons 35-128
Who Wants to Be a Word Expert? is a Millionaire-style whole-class review game that turns phonics and spelling practice into a high-energy, edge-of-your-seat classroom event — no prep, no copies, just download, open, and play. What it is... This digital PowerPoint and Google Slides game features 25 phonics and spelling questions in a Who Wants to Be a Millionaire format, complete with a live prize ladder, three lifelines, safe milestones, and a full winner screen. Students work together to answer
K - 2nd
Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Science of Reading
ZAP IT! Short A Word Card Game | UFLI Lesson 35 | Phonics Center | Kindergarten
ZAP IT! Short A Word Card Game | UFLI Lesson 35 | Phonics Center | Kindergarten 1st GradeDESCRIPTION ⚡ Your students are going to BEG to play this game — and you'll love that they're reading the whole time!ZAP It! is an addictive, fast-paced card game that gets kids reading short A words over and over again without even realizing they're practicing. One ZAP! card and ALL your cards are gone — the suspense keeps every single player locked in and reading every. single. turn. No passive play. Pure
K - 1st
Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Science of Reading
Heart Word Bingo and Flashcards-UFLI Aligned-Science of Reading
This UFLI-aligned BINGO set turns irregular word review into the most anticipated activity of the week. All 90 permanently irregular heart words from the UFLI Foundations scope and sequence, packed into one ready-to-print bundle. What's included 30 unique BINGO game boards — no two are the same1 caller master list with all 90 words, checkboxes, and lesson numbers — so you always know what you've called90 heart word flashcards with small red hearts above the specific irregular letters — exactly a
K - 5th
Reading, Science of Reading, Sight Words
Also included in: UFLI Aligned MEGA Bundle - 10 Helpful Resources to Print and Go
UFLI Aligned "I Have Who Has: Game | Lessons 1–128 | Phonics & Heart Words |
Your class will be reading phonics words out loud, on their feet, cheering each other on — and they will call it a game. You will call it a review activity. Everybody wins! This UFLI-aligned "I Have Who Has" set covers every single lesson from 1 to 128 with 943 cards built from the exact phonics words and heart words in the UFLI Foundations scope and sequence. Print a set, cut the cards, and watch your students race through every word they've been learning all year. How the game works... Deal o
K - 3rd
Balanced Literacy, Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Science of Reading
UFLI Aligned Domino Game Lessons 35 & 36...Phonics Skills & Heart Words
Your students are going to BEG to play this game — and they won't even realize they're practicing phonics! 🎉 This print-and-play Word & Picture Domino Game is designed to review the short a phonics words and heart words from UFLI Foundations Lesson 35 & 36. Students match pictures to words to build a chain — just like dominoes — making it the perfect low-prep center, early finisher activity, or small group review game. ⭐ WHY TEACHERS LOVE IT... ✔ Zero prep once printed — just cut and lami
K - 3rd
Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Science of Reading
UFLI Aligned Vocabulary Writing Pages for Lessons 1–128 (4 words each lesson)
Watch your students draw and write their way to vocabulary mastery! These UFLI Foundations vocabulary writing pages give you 4 official vocabulary words per lesson — two per page, two pages per lesson — with a generous drawing box and two first-grade manuscript writing lines for each word. Lessons 1- through 128. All year. Done. What's included... 256 pages total — 2 pages per lesson, Lessons 1 through 1284 official UFLI vocabulary words practiced per lesson2 words per page, stacked top and bott
K - 3rd
Balanced Literacy, Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Science of Reading
Also included in: UFLI Aligned MEGA Bundle - 10 Helpful Resources to Print and Go
UFLI Foundations Phonics Objectives | Lessons 35–128 | Content & Language
This resource gives you 86 ready-to-display phonics objective pages, one for every UFLI Foundations lesson from 35 to 128, with a content objective, language objective, and I Can statement written specifically for each skill. Print once. Use all year. What's included... 86 landscape-format objective pages — one per UFLI lesson, lessons 35 through 128Each page shows the lesson number, phonics skill, all phonics words, and heart words at the topCommon Core RF standards listed for every lesson (RF.
1st
Balanced Literacy, Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Science of Reading
UFLI Aligned Home Practice Letters for Lessons 35-128
What if parents actually knew how to help their child practice phonics at home...and had fun doing it? These UFLI-aligned parent letters make it happen. One page per lesson, ready to print and send home, with great ways to support their reader. What's included... 94 parent-friendly letters — one for every lesson from 35 to 128 — each featuring: A warm, fun greeting that changes every week to keep it freshAll 10 phonics spelling pattern words for that lesson, large and easy to readHeart words wit
K - 3rd
Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Reading, Science of Reading
Also included in: UFLI Aligned MEGA Bundle - 10 Helpful Resources to Print and Go
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Welcome to Learning Takes Root!
I believe that real learning doesn't just happen — it takes root. It grows, deepens, and lasts. That's the heart behind every resource I create.
At Learning Takes Root, you'll find thoughtfully designed, standards-aligned materials built for educators who hold high expectations for their students. Whether you're teaching the littlest learners or guiding older students through complex concepts, my resources are crafted to meet rigorous academic standards without sacrificing engagement.
I know your time is precious. Every product in this store is classroom-ready, clearly organized, and designed to actually work — so you can spend less time prepping and more time doing what you do best: teaching.
Here's what you can expect when you shop with me:
*Standards-aligned resources across multiple grade levels
*Rigorous content that challenges students and supports mastery
*Clean, teacher-friendly formatting that's easy to implement
*Materials that grow with your students — because deep learning is the goal
Whether you're building foundational skills or pushing students toward higher-order thinking, you'll find resources here that plant the seeds for lasting academic success.
Thank you for stopping by — I'm so glad you're here. Let's grow something great together.
Additional biographical information
I have been married to my wonderful husband for 21 years. Together, we have three great kids, two Boston Terrier dogs, and a black cat named Luna.
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