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Grade 1 Phonics Skills and Spelling Words

Unit
	Week
	Phonics
	Spiral Review
	Spelling Words

1
	1
	Short a
	N/A
	had, has, pack, ran, see, she, back, cap, sack, pans
	
	2
	Short i; Plural Nouns
	Short a
	big, him, hit, kick, kids, lid, little, you, fit, lips
	
	3
	Short o;
Double Final Consonants
	Short i
	box, doll, hot, jump, lock, mop, one, rock, tops, cots

2
	1
	Short e
	Short o
	ten, jet, fed, neck, let, mess, look, are, beg, sell
	
	2
	Short u;
Inflectional Ending -s
	Short e
	come, cup, duck, dull, here, nut, rug, cub, sun, cuff
	
	3
	l-Blends
	Short u
	class, clock, flat, glad, plan, put, what, slip, black, plums

3
	1
	r-Blends: br, cr, dr, fr, gr, pr, tr; Singular Possessives
	l-Blends
	brim, crab, trim, went, frog, drip, grass, prop, trip, now
	
	2
	s-Blends: sk, sl, sm, sn, sp, st, sw; Contractions with ’s
	r-Blends
	skip, step, skin, smell, out, was, spin, sled, spot, slip
	
	3
	Final Consonant Blends: nd, nk, nt, mp, st; Inflectional Ending -ed
	s-Blends
	jump, and, pink, hand, nest, went, who, good, trunk, best

4
	1
	Consonant Digraphs th, sh, ng; Inflectional Ending -ing
	Final Consonant Blends nd, nk, nt, mp, st
	bath, bring, our, shop, shut, these, thing, wish, this, rang
	
	2
	Consonant Digraphs ch, tch, wh; Closed Syllables
	Consonant Digraphs th, sh, ng
	chop, lunch, catch, check, once, when, whiff, much, match, hurt
	
	3
	Three-Letter Blends scr, spl, spr, squ, str; Plurals (-es)
	Consonant Digraphs ch, tch, wh
	split, strap, scrub, squid, stretch, scratch, because, when, sprint, squish

5
	1
	Long a (final -e)
	Three-Letter Blends scr, spl, spr, squ, str
	take, made, came, plate, brave, game, right, start, make, skate
	
	2
	Long o (final -e)
	Long a (final -e)
	home, broke, rode, those, spoke, hole, how, under, close, bone
	
	3
	Soft c, g; Contractions with not
	Long o (final -e)
	gem, cent, race, page, dance, strange, face, far, try, stage

6

1
	
Long i (final -e);
Vowel-Consonant-e Syllables

Soft c, g
	
mine, nice, line, ride, time, white, slice, bike, after, call

2
	Long e (final -e) and Long u (final -e); Inflectional Endings (-ed, -ing, dropping final-e)
	
Long i (final -e)
	these, use, cute, Pete, Steve, huge, long, off, mule, cube

3
	Long a Vowel Teams (ai, ay);
Inflectional Endings (-ed, -ing, double final consonant)
	
Long e (final -e) and Long u (final -e)
	
stay, paint, mail, way, rain, spray, trail, pay, year, live

7
	1
	Long o Vowel Teams and Single Letters
	Long a Vowel Teams
	soap, go, flows, show, found, your, cold, hoe, toe, toast
	
	2
	Long e Vowel Teams and Single Letters; Prefixes un-, re-
	Long o Vowel Teams
	brief, each, field, fleas, people, seat, we, wheels, where, need

3
	
Long i Vowel Teams and Single Letters; Open Syllables

Long e Vowel Teams
	
sky, tie, find, high, why, bright, pies, again, country, child

8

1
	
r-Controlled Vowel /är/; Compound Words

Long i Vowel Teams
	
hard, start, park, farm, sharp, yard, dark, part, boy, four
	
	2
	r-Controlled Vowel /ôr/
	r-Controlled Vowel /är/
	short, door, born, store, soar, fork, thorn, more, move, change

3
	
r-Controlled Vowel /ûr/; Vowel-rSyllables

r-Controlled Vowel /ôr/
	
turn, first, bird, clerk, nurse, serve, shirt, hurt, earth, every

9
	
1
	Vowel Pattern /ou/; Comparative Inflectional Endings -er, -est
	
r-Controlled Vowel /ûr/
	
loud, how, down, count, round, frown, sprout, brown, before, done
	
	2
	Vowel Pattern /oi/; Suffix -ly
	Vowel Pattern /ou/
	join, toy, coin, boy, spoil, joy, point, moist, walk, buy
	
	3
	Vowel Pattern /oo/, /oo/; Vowel Team Syllables
	Vowel Pattern /oi/
	soon, hook, good, bloom, smooth, wood, shook, tooth, does, another

10
	1
	Silent Letters
	Vowel Pattern /oo/, /oo/
	gnat, knight, knob, know, sign, wrap, wrist, wrong, better, learn
	
	2
	Vowel Sound /ô/; Suffixes
	Silent Letters
	caught, chalk, draw, father, fault, never, small, taught, yawn, launch

3
	
Long e Spelled -y, -ey; Consonant-le Syllables
	
Vowel Sound /ô/
	
lucky, valley, windy, hockey, easy, turkey, penny, chimney, blue, eight

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