Systematic Phonics

Use these slideshows to teach phonics in a systematic sequence. The lessons include phonemic awareness activities, decodable text stories, regular review of past skills, and dictation practice. 

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Level 3

Level 4

Fast Track

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New!  Fast Track is designed for students who already know how to decode in another alphabetic language, but need to learn the phonics patterns of English. Fast Track can also be a good fit for students who have high speaking ability and fluent letter formation skills, but low reading/spelling ability. These lessons offer a logical and efficient sequence to teach English spelling and pronunciation. 

Fast Track - Basic Code 
F.0    Introduction to English Spelling (~20 min.*)
F.1      Five Short Vowel Sounds: a, e, i, o, u (~30+ min.)
F.2     Ways to Spell A:  ay, ai, a_e (~12 min.)
F.3     Ways to Spell E:  ee, ea, e_e, e (~15 min.)
F.4     Ways to Spell I:  igh, ie, i_e, i (~12 min.)
F.5     Ways to Spell O:  oa, o_e, o (~12 min.)
F.6     Ways to Spell U:  oo, ue, u_e, u (~12 min.)
F.7     Vowel Glides:  ou, ow / oi, oy (~15 min.)
F.8     R-Controlled Patterns: er, ir, ur (~12 min.)
F.9     R-Controlled and L-Controlled: ar, or, al, ol (~20 min.)
F.10   30 Basic Vowel Patterns - Chart and Names (~15 min.)
F.11    Review 30 Basic Vowel Patterns in Compound Words (~25 min.)

​Fast Track - Syllables
F.12    Analyze Syllables, Part 1 (~30 min.)
F.13    Analyze Syllables, Part 2 (~30 min.)
F.14    Final -y (~30 min.)
F.15    Final -le (~20 min.)
F.16    Words with tion (~20 min.)

​Fast Track - Advanced Code 
F.17     Soft c and Soft g
             (face, office, page, bridge)
F.18     Nine Ways to Spell /au/
             (auto, saw, taco, taught, bought, wash, squash)
F.19     More Short Vowel Spellings
             (head, gym, good, should, woman)
F.20    More Ways to Spell u
             (son, from, love, young, blood)
F.21     More R-Controlled Spellings
             (learn, work, door, four, war, quart)
F.22     More Long Vowel Spellings
             (eight, break, key, niece, ceiling, type, slow)
F.23     More Ways to Spell U and YU
             (new, group, to, argue, cute, a few)
F.24     More Consonant Patterns
             (phone, when, who, catch, school, chef)
F.25     More Consonant Patterns 2
             (sing, think, this, quiz, mosque, cough)
F.26     Silent Letter Consonant Patterns
             (knee, write, climb, science, walk, hour, listen, sign)
F.27     Schwa: Stressed and Unstressed Syllables
              (banana, mountain, away, about, around)
F.28     Six Reasons for Final e
              (like, dance, apple, give, please, are)​
F.29     Review Overlaps (Sound Sorts)

Next: Go to Level 4 (Morphology)

*Note: The time estimates are based on working with students who have fluent handwriting. If a student has a slower ability to form letters, the lessons will take longer.