31 weekly lessons provide a strong phonetic background. The lessons cover a wide range of skills needed to develop strong reading skills. The teaching plans and activity sheets can be used on a weekly basis or the ideas and worksheets can be used to suit students needs or they could be used for teaching ideas, reinforcing students' phonetic skills, and home study.Each weekly plan contains an: - Objective- Teacher Information- Daily Planning Ideas containing games, listening activities, stories and riddles.- A Picture Key is provided for each worksheet that has pictures so they can be identified.- Four Weekly Activity Worksheets focus on the concept(s) taught during the week.- Weekly Tests are provided and could be held on the last day of the week or when it is necessary.Sequential Development of SkillsWeek 1: Alphabetical OrderingWeek 2: Initial, Medial and Final ConsonantsWeek 3: Recognition of Hard and Soft Cc and GgWeek 4: Recognition of the Short Vowel Sounds 'a, u, i'Week 5: Recognition of Short Vowels 'o' and 'e'Week 6: Long and Short Vowel ReviewWeek 7: 'Yy' as a Vowel and as a ConsonantWeek 8: 'R' Controlled Vowels: 'ar, er, ir, or, ur'Week 9: Syllables in WordsWeek 10: 'R' Blends, 'L' Blends, 'S' BlendsWeek 11: Recognition of 'ar, or, ir, ur, er' in WordsWeek 12: Suffixes 'ed, ing, es, er, est'Week 13: Suffixes 'ed, ing, er, est, ly, ness, ful, less'Week 14: Adding Suffixes to Root WordsWeek 15: Adding Suffixes 'es' to Words Ending With 'ss, x, ch, sh, f, fe'Week 16: SyllabicationWeek 17: Regular Double Vowels 'ea, ee, ai, oa, ie, ay, ow'Week 18: Vowel Digraphs 'oo, ea, au, ae, ei'Week 19: Diphthongs 'oi, oy, ou, ow, ew'Week 20: SyllabicationWeek 21: Consonant Digraphs 'sh, ch, wh, th, ck, kn, ph, gn, wr, gh'Week 22: Recognition of PrefixesWeek 23: Prefixes, Root Words, SuffixesWeek 24: Syllabication Rules 1 to 5Week 25: Syllabication Rules 6 and 7Week 26: Syllabication Rules 8, 9, and 10Week 27: Review of Syllabication Rules 1 to 10Week 28: Recognition of ContractionsWeek 29: Recognizing and Using AntonymsWeek 30: Recognizing and Using HomonymsWeek 31: Recognizing and Using Synonyms
