Unit 1: 

• Concept of consonant digraphs

• Concept of digraph blends

• Spelling of /k/ sound

• Closed-syllable type

• Sample words: quit, elf, shred, kick, crush

• Home Support 

Unit 2: 

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

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

• Fluent passage reading

• Story retelling  

• ar, ei, ur, or, ur

• Trick words: shall pull, full, both, talk, walk

• Sample words: spill, string, stand, toss 

• Home Support 

Unit 3:

• Closed-syllable exceptions

• Glued sounds: ild, ind, old, olt, ost

• ai, ay, ea, ee, ey, oi, oy

• Trick words: done, goes, pretty

• Sample words: wild, find, cold, colt, post

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Unit 4:

• Review suffixes: -s, -es, -ed, -ing

• Additional sounds of -ed suffix /d/ /t/ 

• Comparison suffixes: -er, -est

• Forming past and present tense

• Categorizing vowel and consonant suffixes 

• Fluent passage reading

• oa, oe, ow, ou, oo, ue, ew

• Trick words: again, please, animal, sure, use, used

• Sample words: stronger, tallest, spilled, passed

• Home Support 

Unit 5:

• Reading and spelling of two-syllable words

• Review of syllable concept in multisyllabic words

• Compound words

• Syllable division rules for dividing words between closed syllables

• Spelling words with more than one syllable 

• Spelling of ic at the end of multisyllabic words

• New suffixes: -ful, -ment, -ness, -less, -able, -en, -ish

• Prefixes: mis-, un-, non-, dis-, and trans-

• Trick words: against, knew, know, always, often, once

• Sample words: catnip, habit, tonic, mascot, hundred, freshen, boldness

• Home Support 

Unit 6:

• Review vowel-consonant-e syllables

• s - /s/ and /z/

• Two-syllable words with closed and vowel-consonant-e syllables

• Compound words

• Vowel-consonant-e exception (-ive)

• Trick Words: only, house move, right, place, together

• Sample words: hope, confuse, reptile, olive, inventive 

• Home Support 

Unit 7:

• Open syllable type

• Y as a vowel

• Combining open syllables with closed and vowel-consonant-e syllables 

• Additional syllable division rules

• -y, -ly, -ty suffixes

• Trick words: eight, large, change, city, every, family, night, carry, something

• Sample words: no, music, relate, cry, baby, chilly

• Home Support 

Unit 8:

• R-controlled syllable type

• Sounds of ar and or 

• Combining r-controlled syllables with other syllable types

• Trick words: world, answer, different

• Sample words: fort, part, orbit, party 

• Home Support 

Unit 9:

• Sounds of er, ir, and ur

• Spelling option for /er/ sund

• Combining r-controlled syllables with er, ir, and ur with other syllable types

• Dictionary skills

• Trick words: picture, learn, earth, father, brother, mother

• Sample words: burst, termite, dirty

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Unit 10: 

• Double vowel syllable type

• Sounds of ai and ay

• Use of spelling option for long a sound

• Combining all types of syllables

• Homophones

• Trick words: great, country, away, America, school, thought

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Unit 11:

• Sounds of ee, ea, and ey

• Use of spelling option procedure for long /e/ sound

• Trick words: whose, won, son, breakfast, head, ready

• Sample words: cheap, keep, chimney

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Unit 12:

• Sounds of oi and oy

• Spelling generalizations of /oi/ sound

• Trick words: favorite, early, ocean

• Sample words: moist, toys, paperboy 

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Unit 13:

• The long /o/ sound of oa, oe, and ow

• Use of spelling option procedure for long /o/ sound

• Review of suffix endings

• Trick words: Monday, Tuesday, cousin, lose, tomorrow, beautiful

• Sample words: road, toe, grown

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Unit 14:

• The /ou/ sound of ou and ow

• Flexibility in sound choices for reading

• Spelling generalizations of /ou/ sound

• Trick words: Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, bought, brought, piece 

• Sample words: sample, drown, plow

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Unit 15:

• The sounds of oo, ou, ue, and ew

• The long /u/ sound of ue

• The /u/ sound of oo

• Use of spelling option procedure for /u/ sounds 

• Trick words: January, February, July, enough, special, December 

• Sample words: spoon, soup, overdue, blew, argue 

• Home Support 

Unit 16:

• Sounds of au and aw

• Spelling generalizations of /o/ sound

• Trick words: August, laugh, daughter 

• Sample words: claw, aunt 

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Unit 17:

• Consonant-le syllable type

• Spelling consonant-le words

• Review of all 6 syllable types

• Trick words: trouble, couple, young

• Sample words: gobble, tumble, noble 

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