Unit 1: Talking and Thinking about Letters

• Children will review and reinforce Kindergarten phonics concepts

  • Letter names/sounds

  • Short vowels and CVC words (cat, hit, bet)

  • Blends and digraphs

• Children will study approximately 50 snap words

• Children will study word parts in snap words and use those parts to read and write new words.

• Review Kindergarten Snap Words: Like, my, on, an, and, at, here, in, is, it, look, see, this, can, got, went, fun, by, will, do, she, to, we, did, for, get, play, up, you, all, as, ball, come, go, had, has, no, so

• New Snap Words: his, said, saw, say, then, they, but, let, run, us, yes

Unit 2: The Mystery of the Silent e

• Children will study words to help them better understand how language works

• Children will focus on CVCe words (tape, note, site, tube)

• Children will learn to decode words by breaking them apart and putting the parts back together

• Snap Words: big, eat, make, out, take, have, came, same, home, more, not, of, put, your, I’m, into, little, now, three, if, or, read

Unit 3: From Tip to Tail:

Reading Across Words

• Children will work with common phonograms that contain blends and digraphs to build and break apart nonfiction words

• Children will be empowered to tackle longer and trickier words as they read and write

• Children will learn to pay attention to different kinds of word endings

• Snap Words: going, jump, never, there, where, any, today, very, back, best, just, think, with, than, that, when, was, could, from, mother, should, would, don’t

Unit 4: Word Builders:

Using Vowel Teams to Build Big Words

• Children will work to build longer words

• Children will learn various vowel teams to support their reading and writing using long vowels

• Snap Words: away, each, easy, wait, last, near, need, next, been, about, down, house, our, know, school, much, such, two, who, few, because, high, might

Unit 5: Marvelous Bloopers:

Learning Through Wise Mistakes

• Children will be introduced to r-controlled vowels

• Children will focus on capitalization

• Children will be introduced to prefixes, contractions, punctuation

• Snap Words: over, their, under, want, were, family, find, kind, ask, them, things, walk, what, everyone, everything, myself, after, always, soon, enough, great, idea, often, pretty, until