Sound Trail: Grade 1 Phonics
12 weeks of first grade phonics: digraphs, blends, silent e, vowel teams and more.
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- Grade
- Grade 1
- Length
- 12 weeks
- Pace
- 6 short lessons a week, about 15 minutes each
- Price
- Free, every week
About this course
Sound Trail Grade 1 picks up where the Pre-K to K course ends. Each week adds one set of spelling patterns in order, from sh and ch to blends, silent e, vowel teams, bossy r, endings and two-syllable words, and every Read it yourself line uses only patterns and heart words already taught. Every line is read aloud and every week is free.
Kids will
- Tell long and short vowel sounds apart
- Read words with sh, ch, th, wh, ng and nk
- Blend words with consonant blends like fr, st and mp
- Read silent e words and vowel teams like ee, ai, oa and igh
- Read words with ar, or, er, ir and ur, and with -s, -ed and -ing
- Read two-syllable words and know Grade 1 heart words by sight
The 12 weeks
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Week 1
Short Vowel Camp
a, e, i, o and u in short words
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Week 2
Sh and Ch
Two letters, one sound: sh, ch and tch
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Week 3
Th, Wh, Ng and Nk
More digraphs, and the endings ng and nk
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Week 4
Blends at the Start
Two sounds side by side: st, fl, tr and more
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Week 5
Blends at the End
Two sounds at the end: st, nd, mp and more
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Week 6
Silent E: a_e and i_e
An e at the end makes the vowel say its name
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Week 7
More Silent E
o_e, u_e and e_e
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Week 8
Vowel Team Meadow
ee, ea, ai and ay
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Week 9
Night Sky Hill
oa, ow, igh and y
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Week 10
Bossy R Barn
ar, or, er, ir and ur
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Week 11
Ending Garden
Endings: -s, -es, -ed and -ing
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Week 12
Big Word Party
Two-syllable words and a year of sounds
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