This school year, we are using the University of Florida Literacy Institute (UFLI) Foundations Program, which is an explicit and systematic instructional approach to teaching foundational reading skills, including phonemic awareness, letter-sound correspondences, decoding (reading) and encoding (spelling), irregular words (heart words), and reading connected text. Heart words are words students are working to memorize or know by heart. Please continue practicing these words daily.

Below is a list of the irregular (heart) words your child will learn throughout the year. As they are introduced, the words will be added to the front cover of the homework. We appreciate your continued support. 

First Trimester Heart Words:

the we I as like said

and to do a is of

Second Trimester Heart Words:

see book my are little was me with

be you he play from what look have

Third Trimester Heart Words:

your walk want could go  no would should   so

for says or goes there she where their

who they by put one were once talk some