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