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The assessment generally goes quickly, but is entirely dependent on how much your student knows. The more they know, the longer it will take to place them. Placing a student will allow you to know exactly which Unit and Lesson your child is on. NOW they can enjoy practicing reading ANY book - at their skill level!
Unit 1 - Letters & Sounds, Basic Digraphs
Lesson 1 - short letter a, consonants m, n, p, r, s, t - Extra Resources
Lesson 2 - short letter o, consonants c, d, g
Lesson 3 - short vowel i, consonants b, f, l
Heart Words - set one - the, of, and, to, a, is, this, I, as, was, has, do
Lesson 4 - Short vowels u and e, consonants h, j, k, v, w
Lesson 5 - Leftover Letters - Consonants qu, x, y, z, teach plural -s (reading only, optional)
Lesson 6 - Basic Digraphs - sh, th, ch, wh, ck. Learn the difference between voiced and quiet sounds with digraph /th/
Heart Words - set two - for, you, or, no, they, see, so, his, how, go, her, want
Unit 2 - Blends, Digraph Blends, Three Letter Blends
Lesson 1 - Blends at the End - Letter blends at the end of CVCC of words, teach plural -es (reading only, optional)
Lesson 2 - Blends at the Beginning - Letter blends at the beginning of CCVC of words
Lesson 3 - Blends at both ends - Beginning and ending blends in one word (CCVCC), blends on one end, digraphs on another
Heart Words - set three - all, be, by, from, have, he, said, she, some, we, were, what, when, why, your, yours
Lesson 4 - Digraph Blends - Blends including a digraph nch xth lsh pth
Lesson 5 - Witch Punch - Learn how to spell the /ch/ sound at end of a word, CH or TCH
Lesson 6 - Three letter blends
Heart Words - set four - come, could, look, make, more, my, should, than, their, them, then, these, way, which, would
Unit 3 - Closed and Unit Syllables
Lesson 1 - Floss Rule - End of a one syllable word with a short vowel, F, L, S, Z will be doubled. Teach suffixes -ed and -ing and three sounds of -ed (reading only, optional)
Lesson 2 - Hulk Stuck - Spell the sound /k/ at the end of a word. K or CK
Lesson 3 - Learn to spell the /k/ sound and read soft C in words. "Magic Vowels" (e, i, y,)
​Heart Words - set five - goes, does, Mr., Mrs., says, two, where, any, one, been, there, done, too, out, who, twos, ones
Lesson 4 - Wild Colts Units - Glued sounds or Units, -all, -oll, -old, -olt -ost, -ild, -ind
Lesson 5 - Hank Sings Units - Glued sounds or Units, -ng, -nk (ang, ing, ong, ung, ank, ink, onk, unk)
Lesson 6 - Contractions - How to add contractions, teach strange ones, (not) can't, won't; let's, have and would
Heart Words - set six - both, day, down, here, know, like, made, none, now, once, part, pull, put, sure, time, times, likes, days, knows, parts, downs, puts, pulls, pulled, pulling
Unit 4 - Open Syllables & Syllable Division
Lesson 1 - Open syllables, Review long vowel sounds, Super Human - long U can make two sounds
Lesson 2 - Syllable Division Rule #1 - One consonant between two vowels
Lesson 3 - Fly Crazy - one syllable word ending Y says its long sound, end of two syllable word Y says /ee/.
Heart Words - set seven - many, again, also, very, push, please, about, father, mother, brother, sister, love, friend, our, only
Lesson 4 - Syllable Division Rule #2 - Dividing between two consonants between two vowels ​
Lesson 5 - Try Reply/Always Call - In multi-syllable words, most ot the time ending Y will say /ee/. Otherwise, Try Reply (long i sound). When to spell "all" vs "al"
Lesson 6 - Cactus Licking Monkey - Spelling /k/ in the middle - C, CK, K.
Heart Words - set eight - above, are, because, blue, busy, else, every, first, front, gone, laugh, nothing, other, soon, yellow
Unit 5 - Tricky Spellings and More Syllable Division
Lesson 1 - Epic Trick - Spelling /ic/ at the end
Lesson 2 - Extra Exam - Read and spell EX
Lesson 3 - Snappy - Spelling–Double Letters in the middle
Heart Words - set nine - after, change, cover, give, great, into, listen, little, name, people, right, sound, strange, through, year
Lesson 4 - PH and Medial Y - Greek spellings, when and how to use PH and Medial Y
Lesson 5 - Syllable Division Rule #3 and Compound Words - How to divide words with three consonants between the vowels, how to divide compound words
Lesson 6 - Syllable Division Rule #4, multi-syllable words - Dividing with four or five consonants between vowels, dividing multi-syllable words
Heart Words - set ten - hour, answer, month, house, year, word, saw, egg, most, odd, knew, four, thought, won, wash
Lesson 7 - Magic Vowels #2 (soft g) - G is followed by a Magic Vowel (e, i, y) says /j/
Unit 6 - Spelling Schwa
Lesson 1 - Sneaky Schwa Intro - What is schwa? Sound and symbol, teach stressed and unstressed syllables
Lesson 2 - Instant Bacon - When an "a" or "o" is in a closed, unstressed syllable, it changes to schwa.
Lesson 3 - Model Pupil - ANY vowel followed by L can change to schwa in unstressed syllable
Heart Words - set 11 - son, daughter, parent, county, eye, money, half, own, woman, young, use, user, used, floor, door
Lesson 4 - Alaska - A is the only vowel that will change to schwa in an open, unstressed syllable
Lesson 5 - More Digraphs - New digraphs ti, si, ci, gi - Including Suffix -ous and teaching that these digraphs will automatically make a closed A or O change to schwa. Teach -tion, -sion
Lesson 6 - Athletic Pelican - Open I or E in a middle syllable (words with 3 syllables or more) will make its short sound.
Heart Words - set 12 - before, build, buy, came, chalk, during, mean, rough, same, talk, tough, truth, walk, women
Unit 7 - Vowel Team Syllables
Lesson 1 - Introduce vowel teams and vowel team syllables. Spelling long A with ai, ay. Teach -ed and -ing for reading.
Lesson 2 - Spelling Long E - (ee Vowel Team) EE can be used at the beginning, middle or end. Teach /eer/
Lesson 3 - More ways to spell Long E - ea at beginning, middle, or ey at the end
Heart Words - set 13 - around, awful, boy, enough, follow, honest, length, mountain, often, pretty, shoe, strength, three, whose
Lesson 4 - Spelling Long I - how and when to spell with ie or igh.
Lesson 5 - Spelling Long O - how and when to spell with oa, ow or oe.
Lesson 6 - Spelling Long U - how and when to spell with ue or ew
Heart Words - set 14 - baste, danger, dough, haste, loose, lose, paste, prove, range, real, really, taste, though, waste
Unit 8 - Prefixes
Lesson 1 - dis- / in- / un- / non- / (all mean "not")
Lesson 2 - prefixes, mis- / sub- / re- / pre- (mis=wrong, sub=below or smaller, re=again, pre=before
Lesson 3 - inter- / mid- / over- / up- / under- (inter=between, mid=middle, over=too much, up=higher/upward/toward, under=beneath, below, less)
Heart Words - set 15 - beautiful, blood, bury, color, country, flood, large, move, sugar, touch, Tuesday, usual, usually, Wednesday
Lesson 4 - in-, im-, ir-, bi-, tri-, multi-, semi-
Lesson 5 - trans, anti, co, auto, self-
Lesson 6 - micro, macro, bio, geo
Heart Words - Review any heart words students are struggling with
Unit 9 - Suffixes
Lesson 1 - Spelling plural -s and -es
Lesson 2 - Consonant suffixes -ness, -less, -ment, -ly, -ful
Lesson 3 - Spelling -ed and -ing, doubling rule
Heart Words - set 17 - clothes, February, January, message, minute, ocean, orange, promise, research, service, software, special
Lesson 4 - Vowel suffixes -er / -or / -an / -est / -ist / -y / -en /
Lesson 5 - More suffixes - al / -ous / -ive / -ic / -able / -ible / -ity
Lesson 6 - Change Rule - change /y/ to /i/ suffixes -ance, -ence, -ish
Heart Words - set 18
Unit 10 - Advanced Vowel Teams (Coming Soon)
Lesson 1 - Two sounds of oo; ui says /oo/
Lesson 2 - au, aw, augh /aw/
Lesson 3 - ea makes three sounds
Heart Words - set 19
Lesson 4 - ie makes two sounds
Lesson 5 - Dipthongs oi, oy
Lesson 6 - Dipthongs ou, ow
Heart Words - set 20
Unit 11 - Silent E (Coming Soon)
Lesson 1 - Silent E - in one syllable words
Lesson 2 - Huge Fridge - c, g, v, ge dge, spelling se vs ce
Lesson 3 - Silent E Units ace, ice, age, ine, ive, ite, ate, ture, sure
Heart Words - set 21
Lesson 4 - Dividing with silent-E
Lesson 5 - Drop rule with suffixes
Lesson 6 - Consonant-LE
Heart Words - set 22
Unit 12 - R Controlled Vowels and Syllables (Coming Soon)
Lesson 1 - Far Car - Spelling "ar"
Lesson 2 - Corn Galore - Spelling or, ore
Lesson 3 - Her Bird has Fur - er, ir, ur; Reading and Spelling
Heart Words - set 23
Lesson 4 - Dear Pearl Bear - ear makes three sounds
Lesson 5 - Spare Airplane - air, ary, are /air/
Lesson 6 - Wonky W - W changes R-Controlled sounds
Heart Words - set 24
Unit 13 - Split Vowel Teams & Silent Letters (Coming Soon)
Lesson 1 - ia, io
Lesson 2 - ie, ua
Lesson 3 - ea, prefixes
Heart Words - set 25
Lesson 4 - ui, ious, eous
Lesson 5 - Silent Letters kn, wr, mb
Lesson 6 - Silent Letters gn, ch, gu
Heart Words - set 26
Advanced Levels Coming Soon
Level 14 - Greek roots of words, like "phil-" or "ps-"
Level 15 - Latin roots of words
Level 16 - Other foreign language influences in English, including German, French, Italian, Spanish, etc
Level 17 - Games, Names and Slangs (pop culture references)