Use this resource when helping your students build their confidence to read and write “heart words” or high-frequency words. This teaching tool strongly aligns with evidence-based practices, such as the Science of Reading, orthographic mapping and explicit teaching. There are 51 different instructional PowerPoints included in one easy download.

Students will be able to strengthen their letter-sound correspondence by closely examining the relationship between graphemes and phonemes. They will segment words, identify regular letter-sound combinations and examine irregular graphs, digraphs and trigraphs so they can learn these “tricky parts” by heart. Students will be given plenty of opportunities to read and spell these words.

Teachers may like to explicitly teach one or two new “heart words” each week and consolidate students’ knowledge with the following resources:

1. Heart Words Worksheets
2. Hunting for Hearts Board Game
3. Heart Words Work Mats
4. Heart Words Flash Cards

This pack is editable so you may like to include words that align with your school’s spelling/reading program. You may also amend the “tricky parts” and underlined graphemes to match the needs of your class.