31 weekly lessons provide a strong phonetic background. The lessons cover a wide range of skills needed to develop strong reading skills. The teaching plans and activity sheets can be used on a weekly basis or the ideas and worksheets can be used to suit students needs or they could be used for teaching ideas, reinforcing students' phonetic skills, and home study.
Each weekly plan contains an:
- Objective
- Teacher Information
- Daily Planning Ideas containing games, listening activities, stories and riddles.
- A Picture Key is provided for each worksheet that has pictures so they can be identified.
- Four Weekly Activity Worksheets focus on the concept(s) taught during the week.
- Weekly Tests are provided and could be held on the last day of the week or when it is necessary.
Sequential Development of Skills
Week 1: Alphabetical Ordering
Week 2: Initial, Medial and Final Consonants
Week 3: Recognition of Hard and Soft Cc and Gg
Week 4: Recognition of the Short Vowel Sounds 'a, u, i'
Week 5: Recognition of Short Vowels 'o' and 'e'
Week 6: Long and Short Vowel Review
Week 7: 'Yy' as a Vowel and as a Consonant
Week 8: 'R' Controlled Vowels: 'ar, er, ir, or, ur'
Week 9: Syllables in Words
Week 10: 'R' Blends, 'L' Blends, 'S' Blends
Week 11: Recognition of 'ar, or, ir, ur, er' in Words
Week 12: Suffixes 'ed, ing, es, er, est'
Week 13: Suffixes 'ed, ing, er, est, ly, ness, ful, less'
Week 14: Adding Suffixes to Root Words
Week 15: Adding Suffixes 'es' to Words Ending With 'ss, x, ch, sh, f, fe'
Week 16: Syllabication
Week 17: Regular Double Vowels 'ea, ee, ai, oa, ie, ay, ow'
Week 18: Vowel Digraphs 'oo, ea, au, ae, ei'
Week 19: Diphthongs 'oi, oy, ou, ow, ew'
Week 20: Syllabication
Week 21: Consonant Digraphs 'sh, ch, wh, th, ck, kn, ph, gn, wr, gh'
Week 22: Recognition of Prefixes
Week 23: Prefixes, Root Words, Suffixes
Week 24: Syllabication Rules 1 to 5
Week 25: Syllabication Rules 6 and 7
Week 26: Syllabication Rules 8, 9, and 10
Week 27: Review of Syllabication Rules 1 to 10
Week 28: Recognition of Contractions
Week 29: Recognizing and Using Antonyms
Week 30: Recognizing and Using Homonyms
Week 31: Recognizing and Using Synonyms
