Unit 1: Kinder Review
[2-3 weeks]
- Letter formation (a-z)
- Alphabetical order
- Letter names, keywords and sounds: short vowels, consonants
Unit 2: CVC Words
[2 weeks]
- Blending and reading three-sound short vowel words
- Segmenting and spelling three-sound short vowel words
- Phonemic awareness skills: sound manipulation (initial, final, medial)
- Sentence dictation procedures: Capitalization, period, word spacing
- Sentence proofreading procedures
- Trick words: the, of, and
- Sample words: cat, sip, log, fox
- Word of the day:
Week 2 fix quit
Unit 3: Digraphs
[2 weeks]
- Concept of consonant digraph, keyword and sounds: sh, ch, th, wh, ck
- Spelling of ck at the end of words
- Sentence dictation procedures: question mark
- Narrative vs. expository text
- Prosody with echo reading
- Trick words: to, a, was, is, he, for, as, his, has
- Sample words: wish, chop, sock
- Word of the day:
Week 1 much shut
Week 2 thick quick
Unit 4- Bonus Letters
[2 weeks]
- “Bonus” letter spelling rule-ff, ll, ss and sometimes zz
- Glued sounds: all
- Story retelling
- Prosody with echo reading
- Trick words: I, you, we, they, one, said
- Sample words: hill, puff, bill, miss, call
- Word of the day:
Week 1 miss fill
Week 2 call chill
Unit 5: Review
[1 week]
- Glued sounds: am, an
- Story retelling Prosody with echo reading
- Trick words: from, or, have
- Sample words: ham, can, fan
- Word of the day:
Week 1 ran ham
Unit 6: Suffix -s
[3 weeks]
- Baseword and suffix with the suffix -s
- Plural nouns
- Story retelling Prosody with echo reading
- Narrative story structure
- Beginning composition skills
- Trick words: were, her, put, there, what, she, been, by, who
- Word of the day:
Week 1 jobs
Week 2 ships sell
Week 3 ducks pins
Unit 7: Glued Sounds
[3 weeks]
- Glued sounds: ang ,ing, ong, ung, ank, ink, onk, unk
- Blending and reading words with ng and nk
- Segmenting and spelling words with ng and nk
- Story retelling Prosody with echo reading
- Narrative story structure
- Beginning composition skills
- Beginning composition skills
- Trick words: out, so, are, two, about, into, only, other, new
- Sample words: bang, bank, pink
- Word of the day:
Week 1 hang wing
Week 2 junk link
Week 3 fangs thinks
Unit 8: Multi Sound Words
[3 weeks]
- Blending and reading words with four sounds (+suffix-s)
- Segmenting and spelling words with four sounds (+suffix-s)
- Story retelling Prosody with echo reading
- Narrative story structure Paragraph structure
- Trick words: some, could, want, say, do, first, any, my, now
- Sample words: bump, stash, bled, past, steps
- Word of the day:
Week 1 flip task
Week 2 shreds bluffs
Unit 9: Closed Syllable
[2 weeks]
- Teach the concept of closed syllable
- Story retelling Prosody with echo reading
- Trick words: our over, come, would after, also
- Sample words: kit, slip, stash
- Word of the day:
Week 1 block act
Week 2 drills spells
Unit 10: Blending & Reading Words with 5 Sounds
[3 weeks]
- Blending and reading words with five sounds (+ suffix –s)
- Segmenting and spelling words with five sounds (+ suffix-s)
- Words with suffix –s used as action words vs. plurals
- Narrative story structure
- Beginning composition skills
- Trick words: many, before, called, how, your, down, should, because, each
- Sample words: Stump, clasp, strap
- Word of the day:
Week 1 slept trust
Week 2 strap clumps
Week 3 blending painted
Unit 11: Compound Words
[3 weeks]
- Concept of syllable
- Compound words
- Syllable division rules for closed syllables: compound words between two vowels
- Expository text
- Beginning composition skills
- Trick words: people, Mr., Mrs., years, says, little, good, very, own
- Sample words: catnip, publish
- Word of the day:
Week 1 globe brave
Week 2 swipe tape
Week 3 tribes rules
Unit 12: Adding -s & -es
[2 weeks]
- Adding –s, -es, suffix to unchanging basewords with closed syllables
- Story retelling Prosody with echo reading
- Trick words: see, work, between, both, being, under
- Sample words: bumps, steps, wishes, lunches
- Word of the day:
- Week 1: upset, limit
- Week 2: excuse, dislike
- Week 3: frantic, plastic
Unit 13: Adding -ed & -ing
[2 weeks]
- Adding –ed, -ing suffixes to unchanging basewords with closed syllables
- Story retelling Prosody with echo reading
- Trick words: never, another, day, words, look, through
- Sample words: wishing, rented, slashing, blended
- Word of the day:
- Week 1: includes
- Week 2: crosses, waxes
- Week 3: finishes, inches
Unit 14: CVCe Words
[2 weeks]
- Long vowel sounds for vowel-consonant-e
- Expository text Prosody with echo reading
- Trick words: friend, around, circle, does, nothing, write, none, color, month
- Sample words: stove, hope, caves
- Word of the day:
- Week 1: thrilling
- Week 2: submit, disputes
