The manual is full of detailed, easy-to-follow lesson plans that include everything you need to implement each and every step. The lessons align with our continuous scope and sequence, designed to ensure that students systematically acquire each skill needed and learn to apply each skill with automaticity and confidence. The UFLI Foundations program is well-designed on several fronts to enable beginners to learn to read and write. It provides explicit, systematic, comprehensive instruction in phonics skills, including letter sounds, phonemic awareness, decoding, spelling, reading words from memory, and text reading. It is teacher friendly and supportive by providing background knowledge in the science of reading and clear instructional strategies. What’s included in the manual? -Essential background knowledge for teachers -148 lesson plans (10 “Getting Ready” lessons, 128 concept lessons, and ten review lessons) -A detailed description of each step and how to implement it -Concept-based spelling assessments to use for progress monitoring. Check out resources available at https://ufli.education.ufl.edu/foundations/toolbox/#top.