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. 

Level 1

Level 2

Level 3

Level 4

Fast Track

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Fast Track Phonics 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 Phonics also offers review and extended learning for students who have completed the Level 1 and Level 2 Phonics lessons. 

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

​Fast Track - Analyze Syllables
F.12    Syllables, Part 1
F.13    Syllables, Part 2
F.14    Final -y
F.15    Final -le 
F.16    Words with -tion

​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)
F.30.     Review of English Spelling

Next: Go to Level 4 (Morphology)