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Unit 1 - Letters & Sounds, Basic  Digraphs

1 - short letter a, consonants m, n, p, r, s, t / Heart Words: as, a. Lesson Resources
2 - short letter o, consonants c, d, g / Heart Words: has. Lesson Resources
3 - short vowel i, consonants b, f, l / Heart Words: is, was. Lesson Resources

4 - Short vowels u and e, consonants h, j, k, v, w / Heart Words: of, to

5 - Leftover Letters - Consonants qu, x, y, z, teach plural -s (reading only, optional) / Heart Words: do, I

6 - Basic Digraphs - sh, th, ch, wh, ck. Learn the difference between voiced and quiet sounds with digraph /th/. Heart Words: the, they

Unit 2 - Blends, Digraph Blends, Three Letter Blends

1 - Blends at the End - Letter blends at the end of CVCC of words, teach plural -es (reading only, optional). Heart Words: what, you

2 - Blends at the Beginning - Letter blends at the beginning of CCVC of words. Heart Words: from, some

3 - Blends at both ends - Beginning and ending blends in one word (CCVCC), blends on one end, digraphs on another. Heart Words: come, said

4 - Digraph Blends - Blends including a digraph nch xth lsh pth. Heart Words: your, yours

5 - Witch Punch - Learn how to spell the /ch/ sound at end of a word, CH or TCH. Heart Words: could

6 - Three letter blends. Heart Words: would

Unit 3 - Closed and Unit Syllables

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) 

2 - Hulk Stuck - Spell the sound /k/ at the end of a word. K or CK

3 - Learn to spell the /k/ sound and read soft C in words.  "Magic Vowels" (e, i, y,)

4 - Wild Colts Units - Glued sounds or Units, -all, -oll, -old, -olt -ost, -ild, -ind

5 - Hank Sings Units - Glued sounds or Units, -ng, -nk (ang, ing, ong, ung, ank, ink, onk, unk)

6 - Contractions - How to add contractions, teach strange ones, (not) can't, won't; let's, have and would 

Unit 4 - Open Syllables & Syllable Division

1 - Open syllables, Review long vowel sounds, Super Human - long U can make two sounds 

2 - Syllable Division Rule #1 - One consonant between two vowels

3 - Fly Crazy - one syllable word ending Y says its long sound, end of two syllable word Y says /ee/. 

4 - Syllable Division Rule #2 - Dividing between two consonants between two vowels ​

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"

6 - Cactus Licking Monkey - Spelling /k/ in the middle - C, CK, K. 

Unit 5 - Tricky Spellings and More Syllable Division

1 - Epic Trick - Spelling /ic/ at the end

2 - Extra Exam - Read and spell EX

3 - Snappy - Spelling–Double Letters in the middle

4 - PH and Medial Y - Greek spellings, when and how to use PH and Medial Y

5 - Syllable Division Rule #3 and Compound Words - How to divide words with three consonants between the vowels, how to divide compound words

6 - Syllable Division Rule #4, multi-syllable words - Dividing with four or five consonants between vowels, dividing multi-syllable words

7 - Magic Vowels #2 (soft g) - G is followed by a Magic Vowel (e, i, y) says /j/

Unit 6 - Spelling Schwa

1 - Sneaky Schwa Intro - What is schwa? Sound and symbol, teach stressed and unstressed syllables

2 - Instant Bacon - When an "a" or "o" is in a closed, unstressed syllable, it changes to schwa.

3 - Model Pupil - ANY vowel followed by L can change to schwa in unstressed syllable

4 - Alaska - A is the only vowel that will change to schwa in an open, unstressed syllable

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

6 - Athletic Pelican - Open I or E in a middle syllable (words with 3 syllables or more) will make its short sound.

Unit 7 - Vowel Team Syllables

1 - Introduce vowel teams and vowel team syllables. Spelling long A with ai, ay. Teach -ed and -ing for reading.

2 - Spelling Long E - (ee Vowel Team) EE can be used at the beginning, middle or end. Teach /eer/

3 - More ways to spell Long E - ea at beginning, middle, or ey at the end 

4 - Spelling Long I - how and when to spell with ie or igh.

5 - Spelling Long O - how and when to spell with oa, ow or oe.

6 - Spelling Long U - how and when to spell with ue or ew

Unit 8 - Prefixes

1 - dis- / in- / un- / non- / (all mean "not")

2 - prefixes, mis- / sub- / re- / pre- (mis=wrong, sub=below or smaller, re=again, pre=before

3 - inter- / mid- / over- / up- / under- (inter=between, mid=middle, over=too much, up=higher/upward/toward, under=beneath, below, less)

4 - in-, im-, ir-, bi-, tri-, multi-, semi-

5 - trans, anti, co, auto, self-

6 - micro, macro, bio, geo

Unit 9 - Suffixes

1 - Spelling plural -s and -es

2 - Consonant suffixes -ness, -less, -ment, -ly, -ful

3 - Spelling -ed and -ing, doubling rule 

4 - Vowel suffixes -er / -or / -an / -est / -ist / -y / -en / 

5 - More suffixes - al / -ous / -ive / -ic / -able / -ible / -ity

6 - Change Rule - change /y/ to /i/ suffixes -ance, -ence, -ish

Unit 10 - Advanced Vowel Teams 

1 - Two sounds of oo; ui says /oo/

2 - au, aw, augh /aw/

3 - ea makes three sounds

4 - ie makes two sounds

5 - Dipthongs oi, oy

6 - Dipthongs ou, ow 

Unit 11 - Silent E 

1 - Silent E - in one syllable words

2 - Huge Fridge - c, g, v, ge dge, spelling se vs ce

3 - Silent E Units ace, ice, age, ine, ive, ite, ate, ture, sure

4 - Dividing with silent-E

5 - Drop rule with suffixes

6 - Consonant-LE

Unit 12 - R Controlled Vowels and Syllables 

1 - Far Car - Spelling "ar"

2 - Corn Galore - Spelling or, ore

3 - Her Bird has Fur - er, ir, ur; Reading and Spelling

4 - Dear Pearl Bear - ear makes three sounds 

5 - Spare Airplane - air, ary, are /air/

6 - Wonky W - W changes R-Controlled sounds 

Unit 13 - Split Vowel Teams & Silent Letters 

1 - ia, io 

2 - ie, ua

3 - ea, prefixes

4 - ui, ious, eous

5 - Silent Letters kn, wr, mb

6 - Silent Letters gn, ch, gu

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)

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