Unit Overview: 

In this unit you will continue the work you began in the last unit by introducing or reviewing a number of spelling alternatives for consonant sounds.

Here are the sounds and spellings that are either reviewed or introduced in this unit:

• /s/ spelled ‘s,’ ‘ss’ (review); ‘c,’ ‘ce,’ and ‘se’ (new)

• /z/ spelled ‘z’, ‘s’, ‘zz’ (review)

• /m/ spelled ‘m’ and ‘mm’ (review)

• /n/ spelled ‘n’, ‘nn’ (review), and ‘kn’ (new)

• /ng/ spelled ‘ng’ (review) and ‘n’ (new)

• /w/ spelled ‘w’ (review) and ‘wh’ (new)

Note that, as was the case in the last unit, several of the spellings covered in this unit are review items. There is actually relatively little new code knowledge taught in this unit.

Note also that the sounds have once again been arranged by place of articulation so that the sister sounds /s/ and /z/ are taught consecutively and the three nasal sounds (/m/, /n/, /ng/) are taught in close succession. This may be helpful because these are the sounds students are most likely to confuse.

In this unit students will also learn that the spelling ‘c’ stands for /k/ as in cat or /s/ as in cent, and the spelling ‘n’ stands for /n/ as in nap or /ng/ as in pink. Both ‘c’ and ‘n’ are tricky spellings because they stand for more than one sound.

Unit Calendar:

Unit 6 is 25 instructional days with 7 pausing points. It is recommended that it be taught from April 7th to May 28th.