Phonics Overview: Grades 2-6



Phonics Overview

Grades 2-6

• Systematic phonics instruction has a significant effect on reading achievement. Within the phonics instruction in Trophies, letter-sound correspondences are taught sequentially. The systematic instruction allows students to continually build on what they learn. The individual sounds represented by letters are blended to form words, and those words are applied in decodable text.

• Explicit instruction in decoding lessons provides students with various strategies, including understanding syllable types and patterns, as well as recognizing word structures such as prefixes, suffixes and root words to decode multi-syllabic words.

Charts on the following pages allow you to see the decoding/phonics skills taught per selection and the progression from Grade 2 to the upper grades where students receive direct instruction in decoding multi-syllabic words.

Phonics Skills

Grade 3

Systematic phonics instruction has a significant effect on reading achievement. The following chart allows you to see the phonics skills taught per selection.

|Selection |Phonics Skill |

|Officer Buckle and Gloria |Syllables: CVC Spelling Pattern |

|Pepita Talks Twice |Word Structure: Root Word + Inflections (s, es) |

|Nate the Great, San Francisco Detective |Syllables: CVCe and CVVC Spelling Patterns |

|Allie’s Basketball Dream |Syllables: CVCe and CVVC Spelling Patterns |

|The Olympic Games: Where Heroes Are Made |Syllables: Closed Syllables |

|Turtle Bay |Letter Patterns: Words with kn, wr, and gn |

|Balto, the Dog who Saved Nome |Word Structure: Root Word + Inflection (ed) |

|Wild Shots, They’re My Life |Letter patterns: Consonants /s/, -c |

|Little Grunt and the Big Egg |Syllables: Open Syllables /j/ g, dge |

|Rosie, a Visiting Dog’s Story |Letter Patterns: Words with ough |

|The Stories Julian Tells |Word Structure: Prefix + Root |

|The Talent Show |Letter Patterns: Words with augh |

|Centerfield Ballhawk |Word Structure: Compound Words |

|Ramona Forever |Word Structure: Root Word + Suffix |

|Saying We Share: Proverbs and Fables |Word Structure: Root Word + Root |

|Papa Tells Chita a Story |Word Structure: Prefix + Root Word |

|Coyote Places the Stars |Letter Patterns: Words with ight and aight |

|Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears |Syllables: Accent Marks |

|Lon Po Po |Word Structure: Prefix + Root Word |

|The Crowded House |Word Structure: Root Word + Suffix |

|Leah’s Pony |Word Structure: Compound Words |

|Yippee-Yah! |Syllables: VCCV Syllable Pattern |

|Boom Town |Syllables: VCV Syllable Pattern |

|Cocoa Ice |Word Structure: Root Word + Inflection (-ed, -ing) |

|If You Made a Million |Word Structure: Root Word + Suffix |

|I’m in Charge of Celebrations |Word Structure: Prefix + Root Word + Suffix |

|Alejandro’s Gift |Word Structure: Root Word + Inflection |

|Rocking and Rolling |Syllables: Schwa |

|The Armadillo from Amarillo |Syllables: Unaccented Syllables |

|Visitors from Space |Syllables: Cle Syllable Pattern |

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