Early Elementary Phonics & Phonemic Awareness

PreK–2
Written By FULCRUM

Grade: 1

School: Cox Academy—Education for Change Public Schools

Location: Oakland, California

Curriculum: UFLI Foundations

Instructor: Louie Lipa, Grade 1 Teacher

What makes this a strong model?

  • Explicit, systematic instruction carefully following the UFLI sequence and clearly modeling how to isolate, segment, and blend sounds to make each step of phonemic awareness and phonics instruction visible and accessible to all students

  • Precise instructor-modeled articulation that avoids adding a schwa

  • Integrated instruction that connects phonemic awareness and phonics by teaching common spelling patterns for each phoneme (e.g., /r/ as ir, ur, er) and building phoneme-grapheme relationships through explicit sound-to-spelling mapping—pivotal for accurate decoding and encoding

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