Guides
Short guides, written to be used
Practical notes on keeping a reading instruction record that is worth the two minutes it takes. Each one works on paper as well as in the app. These are working rules from people who teach this way, not research findings.
How to track UFLI Foundations progress across students
A practical way to track UFLI Foundations across students: the lesson sequence, ratings after each lesson, review, and a printable record.Progress monitoring without the paperwork
A light-weight way to monitor progress in structured literacy: what to record, how often, how to read it, and what to show parents and schools.How to log tutoring sessions without losing your evening
A session log for reading tutors that takes two minutes, holds up in a parent meeting, and turns into a progress report without extra work.What belongs in a progress report for parents
What to put in a reading progress report for parents: plain words, three lists, recent lessons, and what comes next. With a structure you can copy.When to review a skill and when to move on
A simple review schedule for structured literacy: what each rating means for the next session, how long to wait, and when a skill needs a different approach.When a student keeps needing support
When a reading student is rated Needs support on the same skill twice: what to check, what to change, and how to record it so the pattern stays visible.The homeschool reading log, done once
What a homeschool reading instruction log should contain, how to keep it in two minutes a day, and how it becomes a portfolio or year-end record without extra work.Tracking an Orton-Gillingham style sequence
A lesson record for Orton-Gillingham informed instruction: your own scope and sequence, per-student placement, ratings by concept, and review that follows.Records for small-group instruction
How to record small-group reading lessons so each student still has an individual record: one session, one rating per student, and a group that moves together.Phonics assessments that score themselves
Give phonics, sound awareness, letter, word, spelling and fluency checks on a tablet. Timers, stop rules and scoring are done for you, with next lessons.Planning a year of phonics and fluency checks
Plan a year of phonics and fluency checks: screen in fall, winter and spring, probe every one to two weeks during intervention, and act on what you see.
Teaching a specific pattern? The phonics pattern pages have practice words, decodable sentences and warm-ups for each one, and the printables work on paper.
Literacy Trail is an independent tool and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the University of Florida Literacy Institute. It contains no UFLI lesson content, only lesson names and order.
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