52.2, V, UFLI Implementation Part B Repeat of Oct. 27

This is the second part of two in the UFLI online training.  It is a repeat of the October 27 session.

UFLI Foundations provides teachers with detailed but easy to follow lesson plans that all follow this eight-step routine:

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

Steps 1 through 4 serve as a warm-up and review of previously taught concepts. Step 5 is an explicit introduction to a new concept including guided practice reading and spelling words. Steps 6 through 8 are opportunities to apply concepts through reading and writing activities at the word and text level.

What specific skills are targeted in the program?

UFLI Foundations targets the following foundational reading skills:

• Phoneme blending and segmentation practice
• Accuracy and automaticity of grapheme-phoneme correspondences
• Decoding automaticity of words with previously learned concepts
• Explicit introduction of new concepts
• Decoding and encoding practice
• Reading and spelling irregular words
• Reading and spelling connected text