Focus: For students who completed the Kindergarten CKLA program, Unit 1 provides a review of the sounds and spellings taught in the CKLA Kindergarten curriculum. Students are introduced to Tricky Spel...
Focus: Unit 10 introduces students to five new vowel sounds and eleven additional Tricky Words. The decodable Student Reader for Unit 10 is Scott. Students are administered a cumulative End-of-Year as...
Focus: In Unit 9, students practice writing uppercase letters and learn seventeen new Tricky Words. This unit also introduces worksheets with story questions. These are comprehension questions related...
Focus: Unit 8 introduces students to double-letter spellings for consonant sounds, as well as seven high-frequency Tricky Words. Results from this unit’s student performance task assessment inform w...
Focus: Unit 7 introduces students to digraphs. Students develop automaticity in blending and segmenting these sounds through phonemic awareness activities, chaining exercises, practice worksheets, and...
Focus: In Unit 6, students are encouraged to automatize the letter-sound correspondences and blending procedures they have learned so far. They are introduced to consonant clusters, letter names, rhym...
Focus: Unit 5 introduces students to eight new sounds, including a spelling alternative for /k/. Through oral language games, chaining exercises, and story demonstrations with the decodable Big Book (...
Focus: Unit 4 introduces students to eight new sounds. Through oral language games, chaining exercises, and story demonstrations with the decodable Big Book (Pet Fun), students practice blending these...
Focus: In Unit 3, students continue to learn and refine skills in spelling, dictionary use, grammar, and morphology. They also learn how to write a paragraph with a topic and concluding sentence. Thro...
Focus: Unit 2 introduces the Skills components of spelling, grammar, and morphology. Students also read Rattenborough’s Guide to Animals and learn about warm-blooded and cold-blooded animals, verteb...