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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 you can customize any story, article or book so your child can enjoy practicing reading anything...at their personal 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 - Extra Resources
Lesson 3 - short vowel i, consonants b, f, l -
Extra Resources

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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