Following the adoption of the University of Florida Literacy Institute's Foundations curriculum in May 2023, early literacy students across Lamar CISD are seeing gains in its second year of implementation.

Theresa Gage, elementary English language arts and reading coordinator, said learning outcomes and teacher feedback have proven the implementation a success.

“The goal is to produce confident readers and writers, especially with our youngest learners,” she said at the Sept. 16 board meeting.

How it works

Gage said the UFLI curriculum is a structured literacy program that delivers explicit, systematic phonics instruction targeting skills, including:

Blending and breaking apart sounds

Matching letters to sounds

Reading and spelling

Irregular word recognition

Reading sentences an

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