Foundational Letter Sound Learning
UFLI Lessons 1 to 4 Independent Activities
Help your students build strong early phonics skills through purposeful activities they can complete with growing independence.
This centre package was created to support UFLI Lessons 1 to 4 and focuses on the letters and sounds a, m, s and t. Each activity gives students another opportunity to hear the sound, recognize the letter, practise correct formation and apply their learning through play.
The activities follow the same predictable routine in every lesson. This helps students understand what to do, feel successful and become more independent each time they visit the centres.
Each Lesson Includes
• Hear It beginning sound activities with real life photographs
• Match It uppercase and lowercase letter activities
• Build It tactile letter formation activities
• Find It visual discrimination and letter search activities
• Show It drawing, oral language and sound application activities
• Teacher guides with materials, preparation and teaching prompts
• Student direction cards
• Individual assessment pages
• Assessment look fors
• Differentiation and next step suggestions
• Storage labels and organization supports
• Ready to Teach lesson overviews
Why Teachers Will Love This Package
These activities are easy to prepare, simple to organize and designed for real Kindergarten classrooms.
Students are not simply completing worksheets. They are sorting, matching, building, tracing, searching, drawing and talking about their learning. Each centre has been thoughtfully designed to strengthen the connection between the letter, its sound and its formation.
The consistent routine also makes it easier to support a range of learners. Junior Kindergarten students can focus on the tactile and play based activities, while Senior Kindergarten students can begin completing the activities with greater independence.
Use the activities during literacy centres, small group instruction, intervention, morning tubs, early finisher time or individual practice.
Skills Covered
• Hearing beginning sounds in spoken words
• Recognizing uppercase and lowercase letters
• Connecting letters with their sounds
• Forming lowercase letters correctly
• Developing visual discrimination
• Building oral language and vocabulary
• Following simple activity directions
• Using classroom materials independently
• Applying phonics learning through pictures, drawing and conversation
This package is designed for Ontario Kindergarten classrooms and supports the Ontario Kindergarten Curriculum 2026. It can also be used in Pre K, Kindergarten, Grade 1, homeschool and early intervention settings.
Important UFLI Statement
This resource was created to align with the progression of skills in the UFLI Foundations scope and sequence.
Sweet Little Learners is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by UFLI Foundations or the University of Florida Literacy Institute. UFLI Foundations materials and trademarks belong to their respective owners.
This independently created companion resource is intended to provide additional practice activities. It does not replace the official UFLI Foundations manual, lessons or instructional materials.
Please remember that this resource is licensed for use by one purchasing teacher and their students. Additional licences are required for use by other teachers or classrooms.
Small learners. Bright futures.
This resource is a teacher companion, assessment toolkit and printable system. It is not intended to replace a complete phonics curriculum or the UFLI Foundations manual.
Sweet Little Learners Connections
It also pairs beautifully with:
- September Independent Activities
- Big Alphabet Tracers
- Kindergarten Morphology Word Study Unit
- September Phonics Companion
- September and October FULL MONTH LESSON PLANS
Important UFLI Statement
This independently created resource contains entirely original content. It was not created by, affiliated with or endorsed by UFLI. It was created to align with the progression of skills in UFLI’s scope and sequence and does not reproduce content from the UFLI Foundations manual or Toolbox.
