Scope and Sequence
The LevelUp Reader interactive phonics program provides a systematic phonics practice that builds students’ skills in phonemic awareness. Students progress through a fun, effective series of interactive eBooks designed to teach phonics skills following this scope and sequence.
Unit 1
Uppercase and Lowercase Letters
Students are introduced to the lowercase and uppercase letters of the alphabet and their phoneme sounds. In addition, students practice writing the letters and focus on identifying words that begin with these phoneme sounds.
Unit 2
CVC Words
Students are introduced to short vowel phonemes, mainly in CVC words. In addition, students will learn about building short vowel words, letter sounds at the beginning and ending of words, and word families.
Unit 3
Consonant Blends and Consonant Digraphs
Students are introduced to initial consonant blends in CCVC words, final consonant blends in CVCC words, and final consonant digraphs. Students learn how to sound out, blend, pronounce, and create words with consonant blends.
Unit 4
CVCe Words
Students are introduced to long vowel phonemes in silent final e (CVCe) words. In addition, students will learn about building and pronouncing long vowel words with the silent final e, and word families using long vowel/silent e combinations.
Unit 5
Long Vowels and Vowel Digraphs
Students are introduced to long vowels and vowel digraphs. Students will learn about pronouncing and building words with the spelling-sound correspondences for common vowel team conventions representing long vowel sounds.
Unit 6
r-Controlled Vowels
Students are introduced to r-controlled vowels. Students learn how to sound out, pronounce, and identify words with r-controlled vowels in them.
Unit 7
Vowel Diphthongs
Students are introduced to vowel diphthongs. Students will learn about pronouncing and identifying words with vowel diphthongs.
Unit 8
Multisyllabic Words
Students are introduced to a progressive list of phonemic awareness and skills including identifying a variety of multisyllabic words. Students will learn about adding affixes to root words, syllables, secondary sounds for consonant letters, how to build compound words, the use of apostrophes, and homophones.
Phonics and Phonemic Awareness Works!
“Phonics, Phonemic Awareness, and Reading practice that would be engaging for our early readers. Well, LevelUp Reader provided that. The program was student and teacher friendly. I received positive feedback from both parents and students. I am so happy that my district purchased this program.”
Stacey Hall
Reading Specialist, Ferndale Public Schools, MI
Our interactive phonics program represents only a portion of the titles available to students in LevelUp Reader. As a student’s reading improves, our adaptive platform suggests the right books at the right level from hundreds of titles to challenge students as their reading improves.
Download the complete Interactive Phonics Scope and Sequence document!
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