Decoding & Spelling
I use the Wilson Reading Program in my classroom to teach decoding and spelling. The following is what they will learn in each book.
Book 1 |
digraphs (sh, ch, th, wh, ck) qu as a chicken letter bonus letters (f, l and sometimes s) welded sounds (am, an) s can sound like z in a suffix vowels (a apple, e Ed, i itch, o octopus, u up) |
Book 2 |
closed syllable (1 vowel followed by 1 consonant) blends welded sounds ang fang all ball am ham an fan ank bank ing ring ung lung ong song ink pink |
Book 3 |
multisyllabic words -ed and -ing as a suffix |
Book 4 |
v-e syllable (a safe, e Pete, i pine, o hope, u mule, u rule) v-e exception -ive (give) |
Book 5 |
open syllable (a acorn, e me, i hi, o no, u flu) sounds of y (i in first syllable (cry) and e in second syllable (baby)) open exception a (Alaska) and i (compliment) |
Book 6 |
suffixes (something you add after the root word) sounds of -ed (d, t, id) -le syllable -le exception -stle (castle) |
Book 7 |
c and g make soft sound if followed by the vowels e, i or y trigraphs of -dge (fudge) and -tch (catch) -tion (vacation) -sion (mansion, television) contractions (didn't) |
Book 8 |
r controlled syllable ar (car) ir (bird) er (her) ur (burn) or (horn) r controlled exception of rr (berry) -ar (beggar) and -or (doctor) when at the end of the word |
Book 9 |
double vowel syllable ai (bait), ay (play) ee (jeep), ey (valley) oa (boat), oe (toe) ue (blue, cue) oi (coin), oy (boy) au (autumn), aw (saw) ou (trout, soup) ow (snow, plow) oo (school, book) ea (eat, bread, steak) eu (feud, Seuss) ew (few, grew) ui (suit) |
Book 10 |
more v-e excpetions -ice (notice) -ace (palace) -age (damage) -ate (pirate) -ile (fertile) -ite (favorite) -ine (engine) spelling rules of adding a vowel suffix to a word that ends in a silent e spelling rules of when to double consonant before adding a suffix |
Book 11 |
y spelling rule i can sound like an e -ie and -ei -igh, -eigh |
Book 12 |
silent letters rh (rhyme) gh (ghost) mb (lamb) mn,(column) kn (knife) gn (gnat) wr (wrist) w effecting vowels ch and que ti, ci, tu, ture chameleon prefixes |