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UFLI Foundations · Getting Ready

Getting Ready I: Schwa, diphthongs, and r-controlled vowels; uppercase letter formation

Getting Ready I is lesson 9 of 148 in the UFLI Foundations sequence, in the Getting Ready unit, starting on page 58 of the manual.

Previous: Getting Ready HNext: Getting Ready JWhole sequence

In short

Getting Ready I teaches Schwa, diphthongs, and r-controlled vowels; uppercase letter formation. It comes after Getting Ready H (Vowel Valley; long and short vowel sounds; uppercase letter formation) and before Getting Ready J (Sound wall review; uppercase letter formation). Teach it from the manual, then record the date, the minutes and one rating of how it went.

What to record after teaching it

  • The date and the minutes. That is the instruction log.
  • One rating, seen cold at the start of the next session: Needs support, Developing or Secure.
  • Whether Schwa, diphthongs, and r-controlled vowels; uppercase letter formation needs to come back: next session for Needs support, after about three sessions for Developing.
  • A one-line note only if something surprised you.

The Getting Ready unit

10 lessons. This one is 9 of 10.

  1. Getting Ready A: Sound basics; stopped/continuous and voiced/unvoiced sounds; sky writing, circles, and curves
  2. Getting Ready B: Consonant place of articulation; line formation
  3. Getting Ready C: Manner of articulation: stop and nasal sounds; uppercase letter formation
  4. Getting Ready D: Manner of articulation: fricatives and affricates; uppercase letter formation
  5. Getting Ready E: Manner of articulation: glides and liquids; uppercase letter formation
  6. Getting Ready F: Sound wall review; uppercase letter formation
  7. Getting Ready G: Vowels; uppercase letter formation
  8. Getting Ready H: Vowel Valley; long and short vowel sounds; uppercase letter formation
  9. Getting Ready I: Schwa, diphthongs, and r-controlled vowels; uppercase letter formation
  10. Getting Ready J: Sound wall review; uppercase letter formation

Questions people ask

No. This page gives the lesson's name, concept, unit and place in the sequence so you can plan and track. The lesson itself is in the UFLI Foundations manual, which you teach from. Literacy Trail is not affiliated with the University of Florida Literacy Institute.
Yes, if they read and spell the concepts of the earlier lessons reliably. Start one or two lessons before the first shaky one, which may mean Getting Ready H, and mark the earlier lessons as already taught so the record reads correctly.
Teach the next lesson anyway and bring this concept back for two minutes at the start of the next session. Two Needs support ratings in a row on it means change the approach (build it, write it, then read it) rather than repeat the lesson.

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