UFLI Foundations is a systematic and explicit phonics resource that equips teachers with routines and strategies to explicitly teach foundational reading skills. Surrey schools can order the resource through Learning Resources Services using Stock ID 186715. 

UFLI Foundations includes essential components such as:

• Phonemic Awareness: Helping students recognize and manipulate sounds in spoken words.
• Grapheme-Phoneme Correspondences: Teaching the relationships between letters and sounds.
• Blending and Segmenting: Guiding students in combining sounds to form words and breaking words into individual sounds.
• Decoding and Encoding: Supporting students in reading and spelling words accurately.
• Irregular High-Frequency Words: Introducing and reviewing words that don't follow regular phonetic patterns "heart word" language.

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High-Leverage Phonics Routines

UFLI Foundations follows a systematic approach to phonics instruction. Sound-spellings are taught and practiced through eight routines:

1. Phonemic Awareness
2. Visual Drill
3. Auditory Drill
4. Blending Drill
5. New Concept
6. Word Work
7. Irregular Words
8. Connected Text

Predictable routines support students to systematically acquire each phonics skill and learn to apply them with confidence and automaticity. The resource is designed to be responsive to students' needs, providing ample opportunities for practice and gradual release of responsibility.

Online Support for UFLI Routines

To further support your implementation of UFLI Foundations, the University of Florida Literacy Institute offers a variety of free online resources as part of their Toolbox.

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Within the UFLI Toolbox, teachers will find:

• Lesson Slide Decks: Available in PowerPoint and Google Slide formats.
• Decodable Passages: For practice applying new phonics skills in text and for rereading to develop fluency.
• Games and Activities: For guided and independent practice.
• Printable Resources: Including grapheme cards, word work mats, and supplemental decodable passages.
• Fluency Checks: Passages to assess children's development of fluency using sound-spelling patterns taught to date.

Learn more through UFLI's webinars:

UFLI Foundations Implementation Overview (1:15:00)

UFLI Foundations : How to Implement Day 1 Routines (1:04:00)

UFLI Foundations: How to Implement Day 2 Routines (1:03:00)

UFLI Foundations: Progress Monitoring and Differentiation (60:00)

UFLI Foundations Slide Deck Tutorial (27:00)

Surrey UFLI Support Group Webinars

Learn from Surrey colleagues through a series of virtual workshop recordings. 

SD36 staff will find the password to open the videos by clicking the button below:

PASSWORD FOR VIDEOS

UFLI Support Group - Part 1 (presented November 2023)

UFLI Support Group - Part 2 (presented January 2024)