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Unit 1 Letter Names 1 What's in a Name?
Name letters in own names.
2 Alligator Al to Zelda Zebra
Recognize letters of the alphabet.
3 Sorting Letters
Sort letters by their shapes.
4 Look-Alike Letters
Compare letter shapes.
5 Letter Lotto
Identify named letters of the alphabet.
6 LetterLand
Name letters of the alphabet.
7 Letter Match-Ups
Match uppercase and lowercase letters.
8 Go Fish
Match uppercase and lowercase letters.
9 The Alphabet Song
Say the alphabet in order.
10 Wacky Letters
Identify letters of different fonts.
Unit 2 Beginning Sounds 1 Match the Sounds
Identify words with same beginning sounds.
2 Letters for Sounds
Identify letters for beginning sounds.
3 Tricky Consonants
Identify letters for beginning sounds.
4 Sound Sorting
Sort pictures by beginning consonant sound.
5 My ABC Picture Book
Paste pictures in My ABC Book by beginning letter.
6 Picture Lotto
Identify beginning letter/sounds in words.
7 Where Is the Sound?
Identify where the sound is in a word.
8 Fun Phrases
Read alliterative phrases.
9 Read Along with Me
Read alliterative sentences.
Unit 3 Word Families 1 Rhyming Lotto
Identify words that rhyme.
2 Time to Rhyme
Find pairs of words that rhyme.
3 A-Rhyming We Will Go
Read sentences with rhyming words.
4 Word Family Stories
Read word family stories.
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5 Building Words
Blend beginning letter/sounds with rimes.
6 Rime Time
Blend beginning letter/sounds with rimes.
7 Word Sorts
Sort words by rime and read the words.
8 Rhyme and Write
Write rhyming words to complete sentences.
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Unit 4 Vowel Power 1 Red Letter Day
Sing a song about short vowel sounds.
2 The Sound of a Short Vowel
Paste short vowel pictures in ABC Books.
3 The Sound in the Middle
Sort words by medial short vowel sound.
4 Three Sounds
Identify letter for medial short vowel sound.
5 Fill In the Blanks
Identify medial short vowels in words.
6 Vowel Play
Identify medial short vowels in words.
7 Vowel Land
Identify medial short vowels in words.
8 My Riddle Book
Fill in the vowels and read sentences.
9 Long or Short
Sort long and short vowel words.
Unit 5 Sounding Out Words 1 Blending and Segmenting
Segment sounds in words; blend sounds to make words.
2 Sound Boxes
Use chips and letter tiles to represent sounds in words.
3 Sounds at the End
Sort words by final sounds.
4 Building Words
Build CaC, CeC, CiC, CoC, and CuC words.
5 Word Ladders
Build CVC words in word ladders.
6 Try Tiles
Build CVC words with letter tiles.
7 Quick Reads
Read CVC words; sort words by vowel.
8 A Game of Dominoes
Find pairs of CVC words that are alike in some way.
9 Making Sense of Sentences
Build and read sentences with CVC words.
10 Pet Stories
Find and read CVC words in stories.
Unit 6 Blends and Digraphs 1 Beginning Digraphs
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Sort words by beginning digraphs.
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2 Beginning Blends
Sort words by beginning blends.
3 Blends and Digraphs Lotto
Recognize beginning blends and digraphs in words.
4 Time for Rimes
Read words with beginning blends and digraphs.
5 Write-and-Read Books
Fill in beginning blends and digraphs and read stories.
6 Letter Pairs at the End
Sort words by ending letter pairs, including ng and nk.
7 Sound Marking
Count sounds in words and match to letters.
8 Word Ladders
Build words with blends and digraphs in word ladders.
9 Sentence Building
Read words with blends and digraphs in sentences.
10 People, Places, and Addresses
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Read names and abbreviations of people and places in addresses.
Unit 7 Long Vowel Patterns 1 Sorting Sounds, Seeing Patterns
Sort pictures and words by sound and spelling pattern.
2 The Final e Pattern
Add a final e to CVC words and read the words.
3 Try Tiles: Final e Pattern
Build and read words with final silent e.
4 Word Ladders: Final e Pattern
Build and read CVC, CVCe, and CVe words.
5 Sorting Sounds: Vowel Pairs
Sort pictures and words by sound and spelling pattern.
6 Building Words: Vowel Pairs
Change vowels to vowel pairs and read the words.
7 Try Tiles: Vowel Pairs
Build and read words with vowel pairs ai, oa, ea, and ee.
8 Word Ladders: Vowel Pairs
Build and read CVC and CVVC words.
9 Sad Man
Play a word game involving spelling patterns.
10 Super Sentences
Build sentences with CVC, CVCe, and CVVC words.
11 Same Sounds, Different Spellings
Identify homophone pairs and their meanings.
12 Homophone Jokes
Fill in the vowels and read homophones in jokes.
Unit 8 Complex Patterns 1 Vowel Pairs ou, oi, oo
Sort and read words with vowel pairs ou, oi, and oo
2 The Letter y
Analyze letter/sound patterns in words with y, ay, and oy.
3 The Letter w
Analyze letter/sound patterns in words with ow, aw, and ew.
4 r-Influenced Vowels
Sort and read words with r-influenced vowels.
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5 Sort and Hard Sounds
Sort and read words with soft and hard c and g.
6 Silence, Please
Identify and read words with silent letters.
7 Beat the Clock
Read words fluently and automatically.
8 Making Exceptions
Read phonetically irregular words.
9 Go Togethers
Connect words by meaning.
10 Scrambled Sentences
Sequence words into sentences that make sense.
11 Guess the Covered Word
Identify covered words in sentences.
12 Homophones
Identify, read, and understand the meaning of homophones.
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Unit 9 Sight Words 1 Color Books
Make and read a book of color words.
2 Ducks in a Row
Read number words in a song.
3 Word Bingo
Read and write high frequency words.
4 Goal!
Sort words into two groups: mastered and not mastered.
5 Outlaw Words
Identify words that do not follow regular phonics patterns.
6 Word Search
Make word search puzzles.
7 Question Words
Read question words: who, what, where, when, why, how.
8 Contractions
Build and read contractions.
9 Opposites
Find pairs of words that are opposites.
10 Build It! Read It! Change It!
Build and read fill-in sentences.
Unit 10 Syllable Sense 1 Clap, Clap, Clap
Sort words by the number of syllables.
2 Compound Words
Make trifolds of compound words.
3 Compound Concentration
Build and read compound words.
4 Compound Fold Overs
Find word parts in compound words and read the words.
5 Syllable Patterns
Build and read words with CVC syllables.
6 More Syllable Patterns
Build and read words with VC and CV syllables.
7 Other Syllable Patterns
Build and read words with Cle, Cy, CVe, and CVVC syllables.
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8 Open or Closed
Divide words into syllables and read.
9 Syllable Fold Overs
Fold words into syllables.
10 Category Sorting
Sort words by category.
11 Animal Kingdom
Read and illustrate a book about animals.
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Unit 11 Word Endings 1 Adding Endings
Listen for sounds of inflectional endings.
2 Building Bigger Words
Build and read words with inflectional endings.
3 Double the Consonant
Build words using the double consonant rule.
4 Drop the e
Build words using the final e drop rule.
5 Change y to i
Build words using the change y to i rule.
6 Get to the Root
Find the root word in words with word endings.
7 Short or Long
Sort words by short or long vowel.
8 End Game
Identify rules for adding endings.
9 Possession
Distinguish between plurals and possessives.
10 In Agreement
Adjust word endings to form agreement.
11 Missing Endings
Add word endings to words in a story.
Unit 12 Prefixes and Suffixes 1 Prefixes Come Before
Add prefixes to roots and read the words.
2 Suffixes Come After
Add suffixes to roots and read the words.
3 Before and After
Add prefixes and suffixes to roots and read the words.
4 One Root, Many Words
Build words by adding prefixes and suffixes to a root.
5 Tile-A-Word Game
Build words by adding prefixes and suffixes to roots.
6 What Does It Mean?
Use word part meanings to understand longer words.
7 Fill-in-the-Blanks
Add prefixes and suffixes so sentences make sense.
8 Break It Apart
Identify prefixes, suffixes, and roots in words.
9 Changes, Changes
Identify rules for adding endings.
10 I Spy
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Find prefixes and suffixes and read the text.
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