What we offer:
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Alphabet & Foundational Sounds
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Alphabet knowledge
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Letter-sound recognition
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C vs. K rule, double consonants (bb, pp)
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Short Vowels & Basic Word Patterns
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VC and CVC words
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Short vowel word families
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Nonsense words (to test decoding)
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Blends & Digraphs
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Beginning and ending blends (bl, str, spr, fill, mass, etc.)
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Consonant digraphs (ch, sh, th, wh, wr, kn)
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ng, nk, all-ending words
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Ghost sounds (ph, gh, gn)
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Long Vowels & Silent E Patterns
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Silent E (a_e, i_e, etc.)
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Vowel teams: ai, ay; ee, ea; igh, ie; oa, ow, oe; ue, ew
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Open syllables (me, we, do, to)
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Words with: ild, old, ost, ind, olt
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Advanced Vowel Patterns
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Y as a vowel (long i)
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Other vowel teams (ei, eigh)
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R-controlled vowels (ar, or, ir, er, ur)
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Long oo (food), ou (soup)
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Syllables & Word Structure
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Simple and intermediate syllabication
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Syllable division (e.g., bas-ket)
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Consonant-le words (e.g., turtle)
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Two-syllable words with silent e
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Suffixes: Spelling & Meaning
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Regular suffixes: -s, -es, -ed, -ing, -ies
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Derivational suffixes: -ful, -less, -ly, -ness, -y, -ure, -age, -ment, -tion, -sion, -able, -ible, -er, -est
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Prefixes: Meaning & Usage
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Common prefixes: re-, un-, mis-, pre-
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More complex prefixes: ex-, de-, dis-, com-, in-, im-
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Spelling Rules & Patterns
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Soft c, soft g
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Words ending in ce, ge, ve
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Rule interactions with suffixes (e.g., hiking, raked)
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Grammar & High-Frequency Structures
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Contractions (can’t, don’t, etc.)
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High-frequency words and irregulars