Just words is a highly explicit, multi-sensory decoding and spelling program. This intervention systematically and comprehensively instructs students in phonemic awareness and decoding with a focus on decoding and spelling. This group meets for 40 minutes a day, 5 days a week.

Unit Resources

Unit 1

This unit sets the stage for the study of the English language.

Concepts covered:

• Review letter names and sounds

• Digraphs (wh, ch, sh, th, ck) stick together to form one sound

• Tapping and blending words with 3 sounds (phoneme segmentation)

• Spelling ck sounds at ends of words

Click here for a poster with letter name- key word-sound.

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Unit 2

Continues to review all previously taught concepts and adds the following:

• Consonant blends (for example: st, sk, fl, sw, str, )

• Digraph blends (for example: shr-, thr-, -nch)

• Closed syllables

• Closed syllable exceptions (ind, ost, old, olt, ild)

• Blending and segmenting syllables with up to 6 sounds.

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Unit 3

Continues to review all previously taught concepts and adds the following:

• Bonus letter spelling rule, ff, ll, ss, and sometimes zz

• Segmenting and spelling words with bonus letters

• Welded sounds: all, am, an, ang, ing, ong, ung, ank, ink, onk, unk

• Blending and reading words with welded sounds

• Segmenting and spelling words with welded sounds

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