Contents Introduction ....................................................................................................................viii–18 Five Day Unit Plan ........................................................................................................... 19–40 Day 1 ..............................................................................................................................................................................21 Day 2 ..............................................................................................................................................................................25 Day 3 ..............................................................................................................................................................................30 Day 4 ..............................................................................................................................................................................34 Day 5 ..............................................................................................................................................................................38
Step-by-Step Units ........................................................................................................ 41–219 For children new to Letterland ..........................................................................................................42 Unit A: Short vowels: a, e, i, o, u .............................................................................................................................43 Short Vowels, blends & digraphs, Closed and Open Syllables .........................................................48 Unit 1: Closed and Open Syllables: e, o .................................................................................................................49 Unit 2: Closed and Open Syllables: a, i, u .............................................................................................................55 Unit 3: More review: ff, -ing, ll, ng, ss ...................................................................................................................59 Magic e Syllable .................................................................................................................................64 Unit 4: Magic e: a_e, i_e .........................................................................................................................................65 Unit 5: More Magic e: a_e, i_e, o_e, soft ce ......................................................................................................70 Unit 6: Soft sound of g: u_e, ge, Silent d (d/–/) ..................................................................................................74 Suffix -ed and more ............................................................................................................................79 Unit 7: The three sounds of -ed: /ed/, /d/ and /t/ .............................................................................................80 Unit 8: Special spellings: -tch and -cket ................................................................................................................84 Long Vowel Teams and other silent letters .......................................................................................88 Unit 9: Long Vowel Teams: ea, ee ..........................................................................................................................89 Unit 10: More long Vowel Teams: ai, ay, oa, and ow ........................................................................................93 Unit 11: Silent letters: kn, mb, igh, wr ..................................................................................................................97 Robot Syllable and y as a vowel ......................................................................................................101 Unit 12: R-controlled vowels: ar, or ..................................................................................................................... 102 Unit 13: Two spellings for /er/: ir, ur ................................................................................................................... 105 Unit 14: One more /er/ spelling: er, ear, o ....................................................................................................... 109 Unit 15: Double r’s and y as a vowel: rr, rry, y/ē/, y/ī/ .................................................................................. 113 Variant Vowel Teams and spellings .................................................................................................117 Unit 16: Vowel sound in boot: oo/ /, o/ / ..................................................................................................... 118 Unit 17: More variant teams: ew, ue, oo/ / ................................................................................................... 121 Unit 18: New sound for ea: ea/ĕ/ ........................................................................................................................ 125 Unit 19: Plurals: s, -es, y to ies ............................................................................................................................. 128 Unit 20: Diphthong: ow and ou ........................................................................................................................... 132 Unit 21: Another diphthong: oi, oy ...................................................................................................................... 135 Unit 22: New sound: au, aw ........................................................................................................................................ 138
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