- Books 1 and 1 ½
Consonant review
Short vowel sounds
- Books 2 and 2 ½
Initial and final consonant blends
- Books 3 and 3 ½
Long vowels including silent -e
Digraphs (sh, th, wh, ch, ng, ck)
Trigraphs (-tch)
Vowel digraphs (ee-ea, ai-ay, oa-ow)
- Books 4 and 4 ½
Compound words
Common endings (-ful, -ing, -est, -ed, -ness)
Syllable types (open, closed, ending in -y and -le, diphthong, and three-syllable words
- Books 5 and 5 ½
Word families (all-alk, old-olt-oll, ild-ind, qu words)
3-letter blends (thr, shr, scr, str, spr, spi)
Diphthong -ey
Three sounds of -ed
- Books 6 and 6 ½
r-controlled vowels (ar, or, er, ir, ur)
Diphthongs (oo, oi-oy, ou-ow, au-aw, ew-ui-ue-ou)
Vowel digraphs (ea, ie, igh)
- Book 7
Soft c and g
Silent consonants
Word patterns (ear, ei, eigh)
Digraph ph
- Book 8
Advanced suffixes and endings