Completed Phonics Units

Unit 1

• digraphs WH, SH, TH, CH, CK

• blends

• digraph blends

• /k/ sound

• closed syllables

• short vowels

Sample Words

• quilt

• elf

• shred

• kick

• crush

Unit 2

• bonus letters (ff, ll, ss)

• glued sounds

• R-controlled vowels

Trick Words

• shall

• full

• pull

• both

• talk

• walk

Unit 3

• closed syllable exceptions

• glued sounds (ILD, IND, OLD, OLT, OST)

• vowel teams (AI, AY, EA, EE, EY, OI, OY)

Trick Words

• done

• goes

• pretty

Unit 4

• suffixes

• plurals

• present and past tense

• more vowel teams

Trick Words

• again

• please

• animal

• sure

• use

• used

Unit 5

• syllables

• compound words

• more suffixes

• prefixes

• spelling of IC at the end of multisyllabic words

Trick Words

• against

• knew

• know

• always

• often

• once

Unit 6

• vowel-consonant-e (VCe)

• S sound (/s/ & /z/)

• two-syllable words

• compound words

• V-E exception

• suffix -ive

Trick Words

• only

• house

• move

• right

• place

• together

Unit 7

• open syllables

• Y as a vowel

• combining open syllables with closed and V-E syllables

• additional syllable division rules

• suffixes -y, -ly, and -ty

Trick Words

• eight

• large

• change

• city

• every

• family

• night

• carry

• something

Unit 8

• R-controlled syllables

• AR & OR

• Combining R-controlled syllables with other syllable types

Trick Words

• world

• answer

• different

Unit 9

• R-controlled syllables

• ER, IR, UR

• Combining R-controlled syllables with other syllable types

Trick Words

• picture

• learn

• earth

• father

• brother

• mother

Unit 10

• Double vowel syllables

• Long A spelling options (AI, AY, A-E, A)

• Combining all types of syllables

• Homophones

Trick Words

• great

• country

• away

• America

• school

• thought

Unit 11

• Long E spelling options (EA, EE, EY, E-E, E, Y)

• Homophones

Trick Words

• whose

• won

• son

• breakfast

• head

• ready

Unit 12

• OI & OY sounds

Trick Words

• favorite

• early

• ocean

Unit 13

• Long O sounds (OA, OE, OW)

• Suffixes

Trick Words

• Monday

• Tuesday

• cousin

• lose

• tomorrow

• beautiful

Unit 14

• The /OU/ sound of OU & OW

Trick Words

• Wednesday

• Thursday

• Saturday

• bought

• brought

• piece

Unit 15

• The /ü/ sound of OO, OU, UE, and EW (like school)

• The /ū/ sound of UE (like rescue)

• The /u/ sound of OO (like book)

Trick Words

• January

• February

• July

• blew

• argue

• shook

Unit 16

• Sounds of AU and AW

• Spelling generalizations for the /ȯ/ sound

Trick Words

• August

• laugh

• daughter