Recommended Order of Phonics Topics
There are many phonics topics to teach after teaching letter names and sounds.
But which one to teach first?
You may find many sequences recommending which one to teach first. But remember
There is no perfect order for teaching phonics skills.
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Today we’ll look at my recommended order for teaching phonics skills.
Letter name and letter sounds :
Start with Letter names and their sounds. Introduce Consonants and Vowels
Identifying Beginning Sounds of words (apple, bat)
Short vowel sounds:
CVC Words
Identify beginning, middle and last sound of cvc words.
Rhyming words
FLOSS rule :
Words ending with double consonants ff, ll, ss, zz
bell, sniff, boss, buzz
Beginning Blends:
L-blends: bl, cl, fl, gl, pl, sl
R-blends: br, cr, dr, fr, gr, pr, tr
S-blends: sc, sk, sm, sn, sp, st, sw
Digraph :
ch sh ph th wh
R Controlled Vowels :
ar er ir or ur
Ending Blends:
lp(pulp), ct(fact), pt(kept), sk(desk), lk(milk), lf, nt(tent),ck(duck) xt, ft(left), nd(wind), st(test), lt(bolt), nch(much)
Magic e Words:
Introducing Vowel Long sounds by adding e to end of 3 cvc words
cake, mine, bone, mute
Dipthongs:
Ou oi ow ou
Long Vowel Sounds:
Long a – ai ay
Long e – ea ee
Long I –ie igh y
Long o – oa ow oe
Long u – ew ue oo
Soft and Hard c, g:
Soft: city, gem Hard: cat, grape
Glued Sounds:
-ing, -ang, -ong, -ung, -ank, -ink, -onk, -unk
Spellings with c k ck:
c vc k (beginning)– cat vs kit
k vs ck (ending) — pink vs lock
Consonant+le:
-ble (table), -dle (needle), -fle (baffle), -gle (eagle), -kle (twinkle), -ple (apple), -tle (little), -zle (puzzle)
Trigraphs:
air, ear, ure, igh, tch, dge
Y as vowel
Y as long e (baby)
Y as long i(cry)
Prefixes:
un-, dis-, re-, im-, ill-, en-, em-, non-, im-, over-, mis-, sub-, pre-, inter-, fore-, de-, trans-, super-, semi-, anti-, mid-, under
Suffixes:
-s/-es, -ly, -er/-or, -ion/-tion/-ation/-ition, -ible/-able, -al/-ial, -y, -ness, -ity/-ty, -ment, -ic, -ous/-eous/-ious, -en, -er, -ive/-ative/-itive, -ful, -less, -est
