SCOPE OF INSTRUCTION - SKILLS TAUGHT

PHONICS SKILLS:

Reader A: (Preprimer)
Consonants (more frequently used ones taught first):
s, t, p, n, d, c, m, h, r, b, l, g, f, v, w, j, k, z, x, y, qu
Short Vowels a, i, u, o, e

Reader B: (Primer)
Final consonant blends
Inflections -s, -ed, -ing
Long vowels with Silent e
Long vowel pairs (ai, ay, ee, ea, oa, oe, ow, ue, ui)
Two-syllable words

Reader C: (First Grade)
Beginning consonant blends
Y as a vowel (cry, baby, key)
Consonant digraphs (sh, ch, th, -ng, nk, wh)
R-controlled vowels (ar, or, er, ir, ur)

Reader D: (Second Grade)
Vowel digraphs and diphthongs (oo, ou, ow, oi, oy, au, aw, all, ew)
Soft c and g
Silent consonants (kn, wr, gn, mb, gh)
Irregular vowel digraphs (ea, ie, ei, ey, ou)
More irregular phonograms (ph, ch, -tion, -sion)

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS SKILLS:

Plurals -s, -es
Verb inflections -s, -ed, -ing
Contractions
Compound words
Two-syllable words
Plurals -s, -es
Suffixes -y, -ly, -er

VOCABULARY AND COMPREHENSION SKILLS:

Word meanings
Context clues
Classifying words into categories
Antonyms (opposites)
Homophones
Details of stories
Sequence of events
Drawing conclusions
Cause and effect
Predicting outcomes

AUDITORY SKILLS:

Distinguishing between sounds
Rhyming words

STUDY SKILLS:

Following directions
Left/right directionality
Alphabet in order
Alphabetizing words (first letter only)