1st Grade Reading and Writing
Unit 1 (3 weeks)
> letter formation, recognition and sounds for lower-case letters a-z
> alphabetical order
Unit 2 (2 weeks)
> blending and reading three-sound short vowel words (cvc)
> sentence dictation procedures: capitalization, punctuation and proofreading procedures
> story retelling in detail and sequence
Trick words: the, a, and, is, his, of
Unit 3 (2 weeks)
> digraphs - wh, ch, sh, th, ck
High Frequency words: this, that, those, them
Trick Words: as, has, to, into, we, he, she be, me
Unit 4 (3 weeks)
> bonus letter rule: ff, ll, ss, zz
> glued sound all
> narrative story form: character, setting, main events
> punctuation: exclamation point, quotation marks
Trick Words: you, your, I, they, was, one, said
Unit 5 (3 weeks)
> glued sounds: am, an
Trick Words: from, have, do, does
Unit 6 (3 weeks)
> baseword and suffix with the suffix -s
> pluralization
> narrative fiction versus informational books
Trick Words: were, are, who, what, when, where
Unit 7 (3 weeks)
> Glued sounds: ang, ing, ong, ung, ank, ink, onk unk
Trick Words: why, by, my, try, put, two, too, very, also, some, come
Unit 8 (2 weeks)
> Consonant blends and digraph blends
> Blending and reading words with up to four sounds
> R-controlled vowel sounds: ar, or, er, ir, ur
Trick Words: would, could, should, her, over, number
Unit 9 (2 weeks)
> closed syllables concept with short vowels
> closed syllable versus open syllables
> vowel team sounds for ai, ay, ee, ea, ey, oi, oy
Trick Words: say, says, see, between, each
Unit 10 (dipthongs) (3 weeks)
> segmenting and blending up to 5 sounds
> suffix -ed, -ing added to unchanging base words with closed syllables
> vowel team sounds for oa, oe, ow, ou, oo, ue, ew, au, aw
Trick Words: any, many, how, now, down, out, about, our
Unit 11 (vowel consonant e) (3 weeks)
> vowel consonant-e syllable in one-syllable words
> long vowel sounds
Trick Words: friend, other, another, none, nothing
Wilson's: Unit 12 (multisyllabic words) (3 weeks)
> concept of a syllable in multisyllabic words
> compound words
> syllable division rules
> paragraph structure
Trick Words: people, month, little, been, own, want, Mr. Mrs.
Unit 13 (suffix -s -es) (3 weeks)
> suffix -s, -ing, -ed added to multisyllabic words
> suffix -es added to basewords with closed syllables
Trick Words: work, word, write, being, their, first, look, good, new
Unit 14 (2 weeks)
> review of word structure and concepts
> review sentence construction and proofreading
Trick Words: water, called, day, may, say