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Asking Questions Graphic Organizer (PreK-Grade 4)

This organizer helps readers develop comprehension skills by learning how to ask questions and look for the answers in a text.
Asking Questions Graphic Organizer (PreK-Grade 4)
Asking Questions Graphic Organizer (Grades 5-12)

This organizer helps readers develop comprehension skills by learning how to ask questions and look for the answers in a text.
Asking Questions Graphic Organizer (Grades 5-12)
Book vs. Movie - Compare and Contrast

This graphic organizer helps children organize their thoughts about the similarities and differences between a book and a movie telling the same story. Comparing books and their movie adaptations can help motivate students to read and dig deeper into some elements of the text.
Book vs. Movie - Compare and Contrast
Cause and Effect Graphic Organizer

Students can be taught to use this graphic organizer to identify and record events that occur in a text (effect) and the reason why that event occurred (cause).
Cause and Effect Graphic Organizer
Compound Word Meaning

With this graphic organizer, children can identify and define the two words that were combined to make a compound word and use that information to define the compound word. This can help develop morphological knowledge, or the ability to identify and manipulate the smallest units of meaning within a word.
Compound Word Meaning
Context Clue Graphic Organizer

Students can identify and keep track of context clues using this graphic organizer by writing down the unfamiliar word, the type of context clue, and the word meaning. Context clues help readers determine the meaning of new words.
Context Clue Graphic Organizer
Forming Opinions

This tool helps users organize their thoughts and learn to form opinions about their reading.
"Forming Opinions" graphic organizer
Improve Your Writing Using Mentor Texts

Questions about a mentor text can guide discussion, help students organize their thoughts, and identify techniques and approaches from the example of good writing that students can use. The organizer can be used in a group or individual setting.
Improve Your Writing Using Mentor Texts
K-W-L Chart

This chart can be filled out by children when reading at home in order to support activation of background knowledge about the topic of a text they are reading. This is intended to help them better understand the text.

Making and Evaluating Predictions

This graphic organizer helps students write down evidence they find in a text, make a prediction based on that evidence, write down any new evidence they find, and evaluate the prediction they made. Making predictions is a way for students to better comprehend a given text.
Making and Evaluating Predictions
Making Inferences

Using two prompts, users will be able to use this organizer to practice inferencing skills, which are critical for reading comprehension.
"Making Inferences" graphic organizer
POSSUM Graphic Organizer

Educators can use this graphic organizer in the classroom to structure vocabulary learning and help students work through all six elements of the POSSUM approach. Caregivers may also use this resource to support vocabulary learning while reading with their children at home.
POSSUM Graphic Organizer
Problem-Solution Text Structure Resources

The Problem-Soultion Text Structure Map is a graphic organizer that students can use to organize the structure of a text. This also includes a rubric for educators.
Problem-Solution Text Structure Resources
Sequencing Graphic Organizer

Children can use this graphic organizer for recording the characters, settings, and events of a story. This graphic organizer can be used to help your child identify the elements while reading or listening to a story.
Sequencing Graphic Organizer
Story Map

Students can be taught to use this graphic organizer as a part of a comprehension strategy to show the elements of a narrative text and check themselves for understanding of those elements.

Suffix Dictionary

A graphic organizer to record the meaning of suffixes in words by writing down the word ending, whether the word is an adjective or a noun, and the meaning of the suffix.
Suffix Dictionary
Theme Development Tracker

Adolescents can use this resource to identify themes in literary texts and record textual details that introduce and develop the themes.
Theme Development Tracker
What Am I Thinking Organizer

Users of this tool are encouraged to write down their thoughts about a text in four different ways (opinion, reaction, connection, and visualization) and provide reasons from the text for their thoughts.
"What Am I Thinking" graphic organizer
Word Box Template

A graphic organizer designed to help students determine which letters represent the sounds heard in a given word. A graphic representing the word is provided with blank spaces for each sound to be filled in. Both a three-space and six-space word box are included.
Word Box Template
Writing an Objective Summary

With this resource that includes a graphic organizer, children follow a step-by-step set of instructions that leads them to write an objective summary of a text. The summary does not include any opinions or judgments.
Writing an Objective Summary

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IRRC Resources Reading Graphic Organizer

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Lesson Resources

The UFLI Foundations Toolbox contains all the lesson resources to accompany the lesson plans provided in the UFLI Foundations manual. (Don't have a manual yet? Click here to order one) Every lesson has companion resources that will help you implement the lessons efficiently, effectively, and consistently.

Some of the companion lesson resources you will find below include:

Lesson slide decks (in PowerPoint and Google Slide formats)

Decodable passages

Homework sheets

Games and activities for additional practice

We have grouped the lessons into smaller units so you can access these resources more easily. Scroll down to use the buttons below to find the resources for each lesson or groups of lessons.

Please note that we are still building out these free resources, and we will be editing this page over the next few weeks. We wanted you to be able to access some materials as soon as possible, but be sure to come back later to see the rest!
New to UFLI Foundations? Learn about its development, check out a sample lesson plan, view the scope and sequence, and more.

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Many common words present challenges to children because they are irregular in some way. An irregular word is a word that presents a challenge for decoding. These words contain elements that do not follow the most common letter-sound correspondences. Some words are permanently irregular. In these words, the sounds of the letters are unique to that word or to a very small number of words. Other words are temporarily irregular. This means that the student has not yet learned the letter-sound correspondences in the word.

Although irregular words can be challenging, there are effective methods for teaching them. The good news is that, in most common irregular words, only one or two letters don't adhere to expected phoneme-grapheme correspondences. This means children can learn to decode most of the word, and they only have to learn one or two letters "by heart." The Heart Words materials below can be used to teach irregular words this way. This approach can promote children's orthographic mapping.

Once an irregular word has been introduced and taught, which includes sounding out the decodable parts and recognizing the part(s) that need to be learned by heart, flash cards can be an effective tool for practice. For many readers, irregular words are committed to memory after only a few (1-4) exposures. A struggling reader may need 20 or more exposures to the same word before it can be recognized on sight.

Here's a helpful article about teaching irregular words.
https://www.readingrockets.org/article/new-model-teaching-high-frequency-words
Irregular "Heart" Words

This collection of "heart word"slides contains some words that are permanently irregular and others that are temporarily irregular. Each slide includes teacher guidance in the notes section to explain the irregularities in the word. You can also download and print these Heart Word Cards on card stock.
Heart Word Slides (PowerPoint) Heart Word Slides (Google Slides) Heart Word Tutorial
Irregular Word Cards

We also have traditional irregular or "hot" word flash cards and word slides for reviewing with children.
Irregular Word Flash Cards (PowerPoint) Irregular Word Flash Cards (Google Slides) Irregular Word Slides (Powerpoint) Irregular Word Slides (Google Slides)
Tutorials and Sample Lessons
Sample Lesson - Irregular Words

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Irregular and High Frequency Words | UF Literacy Institute

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Many common words present challenges to children because they are irregular in some way. An irregular word is a word that presents a challenge for decoding. These words contain elements that do not follow the most common letter-sound correspondences. Some words are permanently irregular.

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Information-rich decodables to build background knowledge and vocabulary.

Personalized decodables to make small-group & individual reading more effective & delightful.

Aligned to the UFLI scope & sequence, and compatible with other phonics curricula.

Choose a phoneme to practice

Enter a topic (try a science or social studies topic!)

Watch as LitLab.ai creates your decodable content!

Create decodable content

You choose the skill or phoneme to practice...

LitLab.ai creates unique decodable stories for every reader!

✓ Decodable and aligned to your learning objectives.

✓ Kids choose story elements based on their interests.

✓ Safe for kids with built-in content filtering.

✓ Hear challenging vocabulary phonetically.

✓ Listen to entire stories.

✓ Read & hear kid-friendly definitions.

LitLab.ai supports decoding and automaticity.

"Cognitive scientists have shown beyond doubt that fluent, accurate decoding is a hallmark of skilled reading" (LC Moat, 1998).

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It was a hit! The kids loved being able to use their creativity while strengthening their reading skills. LitLab offered interactive features which made the experience truly engaging. This is going to be a great addition to our classroom.

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4th Grade Teacher

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They were excited to read their stories, find their friends' stories afterwards, and then even read random stories with interesting titles. There isn't this excitement about Epic. They're not like, "Look at this cool book that I read," but today they were like, "Oh my gosh, read this one!"

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LitLab.ai is an early reading platform where K-2 educators can make decodable content that is engaging, accessible, and information-rich.

Decodable content refers to text that is systematically organized to align with phonics instruction, allowing children to apply their understanding of letter-sound relationships to read words, sentences, and stories.

On LitLab, teachers can browse and create decodable content (within seconds) in the form of illustrated stories or non-fictional content. Teachers can also allow their students to create their own illustrated stories (including decodable stories) based on their interests.

We created a self-serve Teacher Resource Hub where you can find a plethora of information. The Hub has guides on how to use the LitLab decodable creators, set up a class, and onboard students for targeted reading practice (including presentations that you can show students). You'll also find a short 4-minute video on how to use LitLab.

LitLab's products are built on evidence-based principles and draw from leading science in the field of early literacy. LitLab builds off of decades of research on the efficacy of decodable text, and incorporates evidence-backed strategies around motivation and student engagement.

With the help of researchers, we have created a LitLab Logic Model which illustrates a logical, evidence-based rationale to LitLab's approach to improving early reading skills. This model draws on well-founded research-based pedagogies and learning principles. To better understand our logic model, we welcome you to contact us.

Litlab is a mission-driven company that's committed to improving early literacy by building powerful reading practice tools using the latest AI technologies.

In order to sustain our commitment to building with cutting-edge tech (which can be quite costly to work with), we offer an affordable premium membership option for schools. We also offer a free tier for educators with access to a limited number of decodables and limited story creation.

LitLab's affordable school memberships allow all teachers to utilize Google Classroom SSO, have unlimited access to decodable stories, and track student progress on comprehension questions and decodables. Soon, premium memberships will also offer Clever SSO, allow deeper analytics on student progress on foundational literacy skills, and provide whole-school access for all students and teachers.

LitLab.ai measures uses a decodability scoring measure to track the decodability of each story. According to our recent tests, LitLab's models produce content that is significantly more decodable than simple decodable requests to ChatGPT, and on par with published decodable stories.

The LitLab team has built a safety module that prevents the processing or display of profanity, violence, hate speech, and adult themes. We also have real humans QA and test our image models to significantly improve the safety of images shown to kids.

LitLab.ai's models are always improving in accuracy and decodability. However, like any AI, there can be instances where the models may inadvertently introduce incorrect facts. In such cases, teachers in the LitLab community can use our "report" feature to flag content that appears to be incorrect, misleading, or unsafe. We take these reports very seriously, and we use those reports to not only review flagged content, but also improves the accuracy of future content.

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LitLab.ai - an infinite decodable library for K-2!

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LitLab.ai is the world's first 'AI for early reading.' K-2 teachers can easily create decodable content that is perfect for early readers - whether that's engaging illustrated stories, or information-rich text. Students too can experience the magic of making their own illustrated decodable stories!

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ReadWorks | Award-Winning, EdTech Nonprofit Organization

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ReadWorks is an edtech nonprofit organization that is committed to helping to solve America's reading comprehension crisis.

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Our E-Book Library is a resource designed for teachers and families to share with their young learners.

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As students proceed through the lessons, more story groups are available for reading aloud. In the first story groups, the language is quite controlled

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Virtual Blending Board

The Virtual Blending Board should be used in most lessons during Step 4: Blending Drill. The Virtual Blending Board is designed for the teacher to project and manipulate, while students build their decoding automaticity by reading the words the teacher forms. To set up the Virtual Blending Board for a lesson, use the grapheme grid provided in the lesson plan to identify the letters you'll need. Then, use the word chain provided to build words for your students to decode. The tutorial video provides more detailed information for how to set up and use the Virtual Blending Board.

Virtual Blending Board

Virtual Blending Board Tutorial

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The Virtual Blending Board should be used in most lessons during Step 4: Blending Drill. The Virtual Blending Board is designed for the teacher to project and manipulate, while students build their decoding automaticity by reading the words the teacher forms. To set up the Virtual Blending Board for a lesson, use the grapheme grid provided in the lesson plan to identify the letters you'll need.

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UFLI-Cross Linguistic Connections Companion (UPDATED 21425) (2)

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UFLI Activities and Support | Emily Laidlaw, Tutor

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UFLI Activities and Support The UFLI Foundations™️ Curriculum is exceptional for foundational phonics. Here are some resources I've put together to help in implementation, particularly with independent work and centers. These activities are NOT to replace any component of the lessons as provided in the manual.

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Fundations Level 3 Pacing Document 2025-2026 (15)

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How to Teach Expository Text Structure to Facilitate Reading Comprehension

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Expository text can be challenging to young readers because of the unfamiliar concepts and vocabulary it presents. Discover ways to help your students analyze expository text structures and pull apart the text to uncover the main idea and supporting details.

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Nonsense Word Memory Game - CVC Real/Nonsense Word Game - Short Vowel Nonsense Word Game - Nonsense Word Matching Game - Short Vowel Nonsense Word Game

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This collection of sight words games gives children opportunities to practice their sight words and build toward mastery while also keeping them engaged and having fun. In general, we recommend using a mix of recently introduced words and some older words for review. The games include:

A sight words variation on a classic game. Read words correctly to put down X or O markers and get three in a row.
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Word Connections

Development, Testing, & Implementation of a Multisyllabic Word Reading Program

The program has been downloaded almost 30,000 times since we made it freely available in October 2022. We are interested in understanding how people are using it. The information collected through this survey will help our team continue to develop and test various aspects the program, as well as develop some of the trainings and implementation supports that are being requested. Click the image below for more information and to access the survey.

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Word Connections Development, Testing, & Implementation of a Multisyllabic Word Reading Program The program has been downloaded almost 30,000 times since we made it freely available in October 2022. We are interested in understanding how people are using it.