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Scope & Sequence / Crosswalk

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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 â€‹

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)

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