Typical Phonics Progression
Please use the phonics progression or scope and sequence for the program that you are using. The following is a typical phonics progression:
Grade 1
Grade 1 Teacher Checklist
All 26 Letters and sounds: Checklist can be found in CVS Early Success Screen package.
CVC words (consonant/vowel/consonant)
Schwa or Misbehaving Letters (also know as tricky words or red words)
Open and Closed Syllables
Blends and Digraphs
- Consonant blends (i.e. br, sl, sm, cl, dr) and consonant digraphs (i.e. sh, ch, wh, th ,ng) Digraph Student checklist: Digraph Checklist
- Soldier rule ck
- Complex vowels – long vowels associated with single letters a, e, i, o, u and magic/silent e (VCe)
Grade 2
Grade 2 Teacher Checklist
Complex Vowels:
- Vowel Teams with long vowel sounds (i.e. ee, ea, ai, ay, oa ow, oe, igh)
- Predictable vowel teams (i.e. ow and ou, ai and ay)
- Unpredictable vowel teams (i.e. ea)
- Dipthongs oi/oy and ou/ow
- Vowel controlled r (ar, er, ir or, ur)
- Vowel combinations are, air, our, ore, ear, eer, ure, etc
Complex Consonants
- Trigraphs squ, str, scr, thr and shr (including Soldier Rule tch and dge)
- Final nasal consonants (i.e. nt, nd, mp and nk)
- Digraphs ph, gh, ch
- Silent letters kn, mb, wr, gh
- Hard/soft c and g
- The many jobs of y
Grade 3
Grade 3 Teacher Checklist
Multisyllable words
- Syllable types:
- Closed
- Silent e
- Open
- vowlel team
- consonant-le
- vowel-r
- Syllable division rules
Writing Rules Grades 2-3
- Floss Rule
- Doubling Rule
- Drop silent e when adding a suffix
- Change y to an i when adding a suffix
- Homophones
- Contractions
- Possessive plurals
- Inflected Suffixes with and without a spelling change (i.e. walking, caring)