• 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