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Level 1

What's Taught in Level 1

Your student will learn encoding skills, reliable spelling rules, and multisensory strategies for spelling, along with exciting new concepts, including phonograms, consonant teams, segmenting, syllables, consonant blends, initial blends, final blends, and plurals. Phonological awareness and encoding skills are taught throughout Level 1. Below is a sampling in each area:

Encoding

  • Learn phonograms A-Z, plus TH, SH, CH, CK, NG, NK

  • Spell words with short vowel sounds containing new phonograms, such as bath, dog, cash, wing, and such

  • Spell words ending in FF, LL, and SS, as in cliff, will, and miss

  • Spell words with initial blends, as in frog and swim

  • Spell plural words with suffix s or es, such as cups and lunches

  • Spell compound words, such as cobweb and bathtub

Phonological Awareness

  • Learn techniques for syllable counting

  • Identify the first and last sounds in words

  • Segment words with two and three sounds

Table of Contents
Teacher's Manual
Scope and Sequence
Activity Book
Level 2

What's Taught in Level 2

In Level 2, your student will continue to learn encoding skills, reliable spelling rules, and multisensory strategies for spelling, along with exciting new concepts including 11 new phonograms, vowel teams, syllable division rules, Silent E and Vowel-Consonant-E words, blends, and R-controlled syllables. Phonological awareness and encoding skills are taught throughout Level 2. Below is a sampling in each area:

Encoding

  • Learn phonograms WH, EE, ER, AR, OR, OU, OY, OI, AW, AU, and OW

  • Spell one-syllable words ending in Y, such as fly

  • Spell words with I or O followed by two consonants, such as find or gold

  • Spell words with blends at beginning and end, such as twist

  • Spell words containing soft C and soft G, such as race and page

  • Spell words ending in the sound of /v/ and /u/, such as give and glue

  • Spell words containing the third sound of A and the third sound of U, such as wash and push

  • Spell Vowel-Consonant-E (VCE) words

  • Spell words with two closed syllables

  • Spell words with with open and closed syllables

  • Learn to pluralize words ending in Silent E

Phonological Awareness