❤️Students listen for each sound, map it to the letters that spell it and mark the tricky heart part of irregular words. Mapping mats, a word-for-word script and 43 mapped heart word cards make the routine easy to teach every day.
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These Orthographic Mapping Mats and Heart Word Cards give kindergarten through 3rd grade teachers a clear, Science of Reading routine for teaching students how words are stored. Students hear each sound in a word, connect each phoneme to the grapheme that spells it and notice the irregular heart part of tricky words.
Planning is done for you. A Monday–Friday study plan, teacher notes, a word-for-word teacher script and a "Map It in 8 Steps" poster walk you through the same mapping routine each day, which helps students build automatic habits.
Full-page mapping mats come in 2, 3, 4 and 5 sound versions, with half-page mats for smaller tables and dictation templates for 2 to 5 sound words. That range lets you start with short CVC-style words and move toward longer words as students grow.
Practice pages come in two levels. Level 1 covers picture word mapping and 3-sound and 4-sound words. Level 2 moves into heart word mapping, where students draw the heart over the part that does not follow expected patterns and write the graphemes.
Forty-three mapped Heart Word Cards, blank cards, a My Heart Words student tracker, a Teacher Progress Check and answer keys complete the 34 black and white pages. The set fits phonics lessons, small groups, intervention, RTI and MTSS, word work, spelling, literacy centers, tutoring and homeschool.
📖 Teaching guide · 12 min readHow to Teach Orthographic Mapping and Heart Words in K–3: A Daily Science of Reading RoutineRead the guide →Mapping links what students hear to what they see, so words are learned through their sounds rather than memorized as shapes. A consistent script and mat make the routine fast, and marking only the heart part shows students that most of every tricky word is still decodable.
Kindergarten through 3rd grade, including small groups, intervention, RTI and MTSS, tutoring and homeschool.
A heart word is a high-frequency word with a part that does not follow the expected spelling pattern. Students map the word and draw a heart over that irregular part, which they learn by heart.
Full-page mapping mats for 2, 3, 4 and 5 sounds, half-page mats and dictation templates for 2–5 sound words.
Yes. It includes a Monday–Friday study plan, teacher notes, a word-for-word teacher script, a "Map It in 8 Steps" poster, a Teacher Progress Check and answer keys.
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