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- Short 'a': Mac the Cat, Val and the Rat
- Short 'i': A Wig in the Pit, A Rip in the Bag
- Short 'o': The Big Job, The Hot Pot
- Short 'u': The Fun Gig, A Box of Hats
- Short 'e': The Red Hen, The Pen
- All short vowels: Pals on the Bus, Zed the Cat
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Double
- Irregular double consonant ending pattern '-all': Hal and the Red Ball
- Double consonant ending patterns - '-ff,' '-ll,' '-ss,' and '-zz': Buzz and the Quill
Suffix '-s'
- Adding the suffix '-s': Caps and Bags
- Digraph 'sh': The Posh Ship, The Wish
- Digraph 'ch': Lunch at the Fish Shack
- Digraph 'th': One Big Bath
- Digraph 'ck': Jack the Buck
- Digraph 'wh': Whit's Bad Luck
- Trigraph '-tch': Pitch and Catch
- Trigraph '-dge': Mudge and the Fudge
Review Passages
- Mixed digraphs and trigraphs: The Fun Run
Suffixes
- Suffixes '-s' and '-es': Sack Lunches
Blends
- Ending blends: The Bent Tent
- Consonant blends: Lunch at the Shack
- Beginning and ending blends: The Lost Raft, Clams at the Pond, The Band
Review of All Patterns Previously Taught
- FLoSS(Z), digraphs, trigraphs, and blends: The Soft Doll
- Consonant spelling patterns '-ang', '-ing', '-ong', and '-ung': The Swing
- Consonant spelling patterns '-ank', 'ink', and '-unk': The Bunk Bed
- Two-syllable words with a closed syllable: The Insect Mascot, The Junk Shop
- Two-syllable words that end in a 'y' (representing the long 'e' sound): A Picnic with Pals
- Two-syllable words with the schwa and closed-syllable pattern: The Man with the Velvet Hat, The Red Robin Rocket
More Suffixes
- Closed-syllable words with the suffix '-ing': Running and Watching
- Closed-syllable words with the suffix '-ed' as a sound: Watching the Frog
- Closed-syllable words with the suffix '-ed' as a syllable: Hiking to the Falls
- Closed-syllable words with suffixes: '-s,' '-ed,' '-ing': The Odd Plant
Three-
- Three-syllable words with short vowels and schwa: The Tennis Match
R-Controlled Vowels
- One-syllable words with r-controlled vowels: 'ar': Living on the Farm
- One-syllable words with r-controlled vowels: 'or': The Forts
- One-syllable words with r-controlled vowels: 'ur': Murl and the Robin
- One-syllable words with all of the r-controlled vowels: 'ur', 'ar', 'ir', and 'er': Checking on the Surf
- Multisyllable words with r-controlled vowels: 'ar': The Art Party in the Garden
- Multisyllable words with r-controlled vowels: 'or': Stormy the Horse
- Multisyllable words with r-controlled vowels: 'er', 'ir', and 'ur': Running Partners
- Multisyllable words with r-controlled vowels: 'or' and 'er': Ports and Harbors
One- and Two-
- Multisyllable words with open syllables: The Paper Jet, Watching the Buffalo and Elk
- Consonant '-le': The Apple Puzzle, The Lambert Family Dinner
One-
- Magic 'e' pattern 'o-e': A Trip to the Home Store
- Magic 'e' pattern 'a-e': Jobs for Rose and Jake
- Magic 'e' pattern 'i-e': Hike, Bike Swim
- Magic 'e' pattern 'u-e': Twins, The Class Trip
- Magic 'e' pattern (all long vowels): Planning a Trip, The Pen Pal Project
- Magic 'e' pattern 'o-e': The Sibling Squabble
- Magic 'e' pattern 'a-e': The Math Problem
- Magic 'e' pattern 'i-e': The Homesick Pilot
- Magic 'e' pattern 'u-e': Duke
- Magic 'e' pattern 'e-e': The Stampede
- Magic 'e' pattern (all long vowels): The Extreme Race
Hard and Soft 'c' and 'g'
- Hard and soft 'c': A Visit to the Pacific Northwest
- Hard and soft 'g': The Safety Rangers, Ginger and the Gerbil
- Long 'o' vowel teams: The Yellow Boat
- Long 'e' vowel teams: Seeking Nuts for Winter
- Long 'a' vowel teams: Fay's Birthday Party
- Long 'i' vowel teams: Dinner by the Fire
- Long 'u' vowel teams: Jeans for Pru
- Vowel teams 'oo', 'ew', 'ue', and 'ou': The Field Trip to the Zoo
- Vowel team 'oo' as in cook: Caleb's Cookbook
- Vowel teams 'oo', 'ou', 'ew' and 'ue': Youth Troop Soup
- Vowel team 'aw' as in lawn and 'au' as in auto: The Jigsaw Puzzle
Dipthongs
- Diphthongs 'oi' and 'oy': Troy's Pink Pig
- Diphthongs 'ou' and 'ow': Rowdy on Broadway
Silent
- Silent consonants: Chaos at the Castle Game
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