Scope & Sequence
Chapter 1
1. Letter Group 1
2. Most Common Words List 1
3. Building Words
4. Nonsense Words
5. Capitalization
6. Letter Group 2
7. Most Common Words List 2
8. Letter Group 3
9. Most Common Words List 3
10. Letter Group 4
11. Punctuation
12. Most Common Words List 4
13. Letter Group 5
14. Spelling with C and K
15. Most Common Words List 5
16. Alphabetical Order
Chapter 2
17. Most Common Words List 6
18. L-Blends
19. R-Blends
20. S-Blends
21. Commas
22. Two Extra Blends
23. Double S, F, and Z and Plurals
24. Most Common Words List 7
25. Special Vowel Combinations
26. Compound Words
27. Voiced and Voiceless and the TH Digraphs
28. Digraphs CH, SH, WH, and PH
29. Most Common Words List 8
30. Contractions
Chapter 3
31. Short and Long Vowels
32. Phonetic Skill 1
33. Phonetic Skill 2
34. Nouns
35. Spelling with -CK
36. Most Common Words List 9
37. Adding Suffixes to Phonetic Skills 1 and 2
38. Three Sounds of -ED
39. Verbs
40. Vowel Families O and I
41. Most Common Words List 10
42. Phonetic Skill 3
43. Phonetic Skill 4
44. Adjectives
45. Spelling with -KE
46. Most Common Words List 11
47. Another Sound for C and G
48. Adding Suffixes to Phonetic Skills 3 and 4
49. Adverbs
50. Phonetic Skill 5
51. Most Common Words List 12
52. Spelling with -K
53. Digraph Blends
54. Sentence Structure
55. Adding Suffixes to Phonetic Skill 5
56. Most Common Words List 13
57. Sounds of GH, IGH, and IGHT
58. Most Common Words List 14
Chapter 4
59. Many Jobs of Y
60. Most Common Words List 15
61. Decoding Skill 1
62. The Schwa
63. Determiners
64. Last Job of Y
65. Most Common Words List 16
66. Decoding Skill 2
67. Conjunctions
68. Double Consonants
69. -LE at the End of a Word
70. Most Common Words List 17
71. Adding Suffixes to Words Ending in Y
72. Synonyms, Antonyms, and More
73. Decoding Two-Syllable Words
74. Spelling with -C
75. Most Common Words List 18
Chapter 5
76. Murmur Diphthong AR
77. Murmur Diphthong OR
78. Murmur Diphthongs ER, UR, and IR
79. Prefixes, Root Words, and Suffixes
80. Exceptions to Murmur Diphthongs
81. Most Common Words List 19
82. Decoding Multi-Syllabic Words
83. More Digraphs
84. Digraph Words with Plural Endings and Multi-Syllabic Words with Digraphs
85. Most Common Words List 20
86. Special Vowel Sounds AU/AW
87. Special Vowel Sounds OU/OW
88. Special Vowel Sounds OI/OY
89. Special Vowel Sounds OO and OO
90. Spelling with -KE, -CK, -K, and -C
91. Decoding Exceptions
92. Most Common Words List 21
93. Other Suffixes: -TION, -SION, and -OUS
Chapter 6
94. Letter Combinations that Split
95. Other Sounds of EA and IE/EI
96. Reversed Vowels
97. Sounds of EU and EW
98. Most Common Words List 22
99. Practicing Multi-Syllabic Words
100. Spelling with -SS, -CE, or -SE
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