Kindergarten
Throughout the year in kindergarten, students will learn:
Letter Identification
Blending sounds to read
Grade Level Trick Words
Letter Sounds
Segmenting sounds in a word
Concept of Digraphs
Letter Formation
Manipulating sounds in a word
Sentence Structure
First Grade
Throughout the year in first grade, students will learn:
Consonant Blends
Segmenting and Blending up to 5 sounds
Closed Syllable Rules (ck, bonus letters)
R-Controlled Vowel Syllable
V-e Syllable
Glued Sounds (ex. An, am, , ing, ink)
Vowel Team Syllable
Syllabication of Multisyllabic Words
Second Grade
Throughout the year in second grade, students will learn:
Reading and spelling words with 2 syllables
Introduction of -le syllable
Review of Closed, R-Controlled Vowel, Vowel Team, Open, V-e syllables
Suffixes
Fluency in reading
Review of Glued Sounds
Extensive study of Vowel Teams
Syllabication division rules
Third Grade
Throughout the year in third grade, students will learn:
Homophones
Spelling and reading of “c” and “g” as hard and soft sounds
Silent letter sounds (ex. wr, gn, etc)
Review of all syllable types
Schwa
Cursive Writing
Review of all suffixes
Syllable type exception rules
Reading and writing multisyllabic words
