Heggerty Phonemic Awareness and UFLI Foundations Phonics: An Overview

Target Audience: This webinar is suitable for any primary teachers or principals who are considering adopting either Heggerty or UFLI Foundations in their school in the coming academic year. 

This webinar will provide a brief overview of the Heggerty Phonemic Awareness programme and UFLI Foundations phonics programme.  A sample lesson for each programme will be demonstrated. 

Heggerty is a Phonemic Awareness programme that comes in 3 levels: Pre-K, Kindergarten and Primary (Junior Infants, Senior Infants and First Class).  Each level consists of daily lessons for the whole year, focusing on phonemic awareness skills.  Each lesson takes approximately 10 minutes.

UFLI Foundations is suitable for Junior Infants to 2^nd Class.  It contains 128 units, with easy-to-follow lesson plans. Lessons take approximately 30 minutes, each consisting of systematic review and explicit teaching and practice of new concepts.  Free companion lessons resources are available online, including powerpoint presentations, games and decodable texts.

Deirdre has no affiliation with either Heggerty or UFLI.

Tutor Bio: Deirdre O’Toole is a Primary School Teachers from Co. Meath.  She is passionate about child-led play and early literacy.  Deirdre is currently studying Literacy Education in Mary Immaculate College.  She runs the Instagram page ‘Playful Classroom’.