Detailed sight word mapping by sounds, with articulation support.
Help is at your fingertips with these colorful tabs on the teacher’s manual. Low Prep organized Teacher’s Guide. Support your students by explicitly teaching heart word mapping sorted by sounds. Differentiated levels, cumulative instruction, phonics, and spelling patterns. Student worksheets. Articulation images with detailed explanations. Great for reading intervention!
Heart words grouped by the sounds make it easier for students to practice and retain the information.
Unique Heart Word Decoding Elkonin Boxes
- Full Red Heart – Focused heart sound skill
- Heart Outlines– Previously learned pattern
- Green line – Decodable sound
- Green line with a Dark outline – Long vowel that says its name
- White line with X – silent letter
Articulation Instruction
- Mouth image with airflow lines
- Voiced and unvoiced marking under bottom lip ~
- Detailed descriptions of lip and mouth movements
- Helpful descriptions of sound: bursts, vibrates, air pushes
Spelling Patterns – Tabs
Vowel Sounds, Schwa, 2 Long u sounds, Digraphs, R-Controlled, R-Trigraph, consonants, th/th voiced and unvoiced, wh
Consonants – Begin c, k, ending ck, ending k, ke, ic, soft & hard g, dge, ending l, ll, le
- more
s = z sound
The suffix – ed has 3 sounds
contractions
tricky Y
- more
How will this help you?
Well-organized resource. Easy to grab and teach with No-prep work.
Heart Words are orthographicly mapped for you. Explicit phonics.
Code-based spelling instruction.
Color-coded decodable sounds are green or darker outlines for long vowels.
Heart Words and decodable words are grouped together by similar sounds, which makes teaching them easy and sound-focused.
Sound checks on the back cover.
Vowel articulation on the last page.
Detailed sound articulation directions are at your fingertips.
Student worksheets are versatile to use. Follow the link to see the video.
Cumulative Instruction
Heart Words and High-frequency words grouped by sounds are presented in a sequential and cumulative format.
Starting with the simplest words first and then progressing to more advanced words.
Example – short a
at,
an,
and,
am,
as * ( this one is the heart sound, s = z) The other words were decodable.
