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Book One Reading and Writing Connection Skills:

  • All basic consonant sounds
  • All short vowel sounds
  • /ar/ spelled ar
  • /k/ spelled ck
  • short e spelled ea
  • /hw/ spelled wh
  • /sh/ spelled sh
  • /th/ spelled th
  • /ch/ spelled ch
  • /ch/ spelled tch
  • long a spelled a, a-e
  • /j/ spelled j, dge, ge, gi, gy
  • long i spelled i, i-e
  • /s/ spelled ce, ci, cy
  • long o spelled o,o-e
  • long u spelled u, u-e
  • long e spelled e, e-e
  • long e spelled ee, ea
  • long vowels + r
  • long e spelled y, ie
  • long a spelled ai, ay
  • long i spelled y, ie
  • ng spelled with -ang, -ing, -ong, -ung
Book Two Reading and Writing Connection Skills:
  • long o spelled oe, ow, oa
  • long u spelled ew, ue
  • revising and editing
  • adding suffixes (doubling final consonant, changing y to i)
  • proofreading
  • ow (as in cow) spelled ow, ou
  • dialogue
  • compound words
  • comparing with -er, -est
  • /aw/ spelled aw, au
  • oo (as in boot) spelled oo, ue, u-e, u, ew
  • oo (as in foot) spelled oo
  • /n/ spelled kn
  • /oi/ spelled oi, oy
  • describing words
  • speaker tags
  • /r/ spelled wr
  • /f/ spelled ph