Rise & Learn Curriculum

Help your first grader master the Short I sound with this engaging, teacher‑designed phonics unit! Rise & Learn Curriculum: Unit 3 - Short I gives young readers the structured practice they need to build confidence, fluency, and strong decoding skills.

This unit includes a full set of short‑i activities that follow a clear, predictable routine-perfect for classroom instruction, small‑group intervention, homeschool learning, or independent practice.

Inside this book, students will practice:

• Identifying the short I vowel sound

• Reading and writing CVC short‑i words

• Blending and segmenting phonemes

• Completing short‑i sentences

• Matching words to pictures

• Building words with letter tiles

• Checking comprehension with "Does it make sense?" sentences

• Drawing to show understanding

• Rewriting sentences with correct capitalization and punctuation

Skills Covered:

• RF.1.2 - Phonemic awareness

• RF.1.3 - Short‑vowel decoding

• RF.1.4 - Reading for meaning

• L.1.2 - Capitalization and punctuation

Perfect for:

• First grade classrooms

• Homeschool families

• Reading intervention

• Small‑group instruction

• Literacy centers

• Early finishers

• Tutoring

Rise & Learn Curriculum is designed by a teacher and curriculum developer to give students the strong phonics foundation they need for lifelong reading success.

If you're building a complete phonics library, be sure to check out Unit 1: Short A and Unit 2: Short E in this series.