The Ultimate Science of Reading Toolkit bundled with 121 Decodable Readers gives K-2 teachers ready-to-use phonemic awareness, phonics, reading, and comprehension activities for quick, focused small reading groups.

Planning small reading groups shouldn't require hunting through folders, making a new activity every night, or wondering what to do when students need extra practice with a specific skill.

This Science of Reading Toolkit gives you a huge collection of ready-to-use activities for beginning readers, with a strong focus on phonemic awareness and phonics, plus reading strategies, Heart Words, and comprehension. The activities are designed specifically for small-group reading instruction, so you can choose the skill your students need and get started.

The decodable books were created using the UFLI scope and sequence for Lessons 5-128, giving you a progression of texts for Kindergarten, 1st Grade, and 2nd Grade phonics skills. Pair the readers with activities from the included Science of Reading Toolkit to create focused small-group lessons based on exactly what your students need.

The Toolkit activities are flexible rather than tied to one specific reader. Choose a decodable book, select the phonics or reading skill you want to practice, and pull an activity from your organized Toolkit.

You can even use the Toolkit activities with other decodable readers and texts you already have in your classroom.

Why Teachers Love This Toolkit

• Plan small reading groups faster by keeping a large collection of targeted activities organized and ready to grab.

• Target the skill your students need instead of forcing every reading group through the same activity.

• Use short activities designed to fit naturally into a small-group reading lesson, with individual activities intended to take approximately 3–5 minutes or less.

• Build your toolkit once, then reuse the materials as different students need practice throughout the year.

• Quickly find activities using the numbered activity cards and included organization system.

• Support beginning readers with explicit practice in foundational reading skills.

What's Included:

This printable small group reading toolkit includes a large collection of activities covering foundational literacy skills such as:

• 121 K-2 Decodable Readers (created using the UFLI Scope & Sequence)

  • Color and B&W formats

  • Follows UFLI Scope and Sequence

  • Sequential, scaffolded progression

  • Pre-reading word practice (decodable and heart words)

  • Built-in written response questions to support comprehension

• Phonemic awareness

• Phonics

• Letter and sound activities

• Phoneme-to-grapheme connections

• Mouth articulation and sound-production supports

• Heart Words

• Reading strategies

• Before-reading activities

• Comprehension

• Character feelings and other comprehension skills

• Teacher directions for individual activities

• Materials and preparation information

• Numbered activity cards for organization

• Printing and storage recommendations

• Planning/organization information to help you locate activities and skills

The toolkit uses color-coded activity cards to help organize instruction. Red cards focus on phonemic awareness and phonics, blue cards contain activities that can typically be used before reading or when students need immediate practice with a particular skill, and yellow cards focus on comprehension after reading.

The resource also includes activities that explicitly connect phonemes to graphemes using mouth pictures. For example, the toolkit provides mouth-position visuals and teacher information for individual sounds, including whether sounds are voiced or unvoiced and how to form the mouth.

How to Use the Science of Reading Toolkit

Prep and organize the toolkit ahead of time, then keep the activities accessible near your small-group reading area.

When planning a group, choose activities based on the foundational reading skills those students currently need. Because the activities are short, you can add targeted phonemic awareness, phonics, reading, or comprehension practice without turning your small-group lesson into a marathon.

You can also pull an activity immediately when you notice students struggling with a skill during instruction. The numbered cards make it easier to return materials to the correct place when you're finished.

This resource is especially useful for Kindergarten, 1st Grade, and 2nd Grade teachers, intervention teachers, reading specialists, special education teachers, and homeschool educators working with beginning readers.

If you're tired of reinventing your small reading groups every week, build your toolkit once and give yourself a bank of activities you can return to again and again.

Designed to Make Planning Easier

The Ultimate Science of Reading Toolkit was created to be prepped and organized ahead of time, giving you materials you can keep near your small-group teaching area and pull as needed.

Set up your Toolkit once, then use it with your small groups again and again.

Perfect For:

• Kindergarten, 1st Grade, and 2nd Grade

• Small reading groups

• Science of Reading instruction

• Phonics intervention

• Reading intervention

• Special education

• Literacy centers and rotations

• Reading specialists

• Homeschool instruction

Want to preview the full toolkit? Check out the SOR Toolkit Video for a full walkthrough of everything included!

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