📚 Reading & Writing

Reading, writing, spelling and grammar from first sounds to high school, in the structured-literacy order (reading-ela.md §12): sounds, phonics, word parts, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, writing, conventions. Codes are Common Core ELA.

👂 Sounds

Phonological awareness: rhyme, syllables, first sounds, then blending, splitting and swapping single sounds.

🔤 Letters & Phonics

Decoding and encoding, pattern by pattern: print, letters and sounds, short vowels, heart words, digraphs and blends, silent e, vowel teams, then long words.

🧩 Word Parts

Morphology: endings, compound words, prefixes and suffixes, then Latin roots and Greek forms.

📖 Smooth Reading

Fluency: accurate decodable reading, repeated reading with a model, expression, then wide reading at the right level.

💬 Words

Vocabulary: everyday words and groups, word relationships, context clues, academic words, figurative language, connotation.

🔍 Understanding

Comprehension and knowledge: retelling, story parts, nonfiction features, main idea and text structure, theme, then literature and rhetoric.

✏️ Writing

Handwriting, whole sentences, sentence combining, first pieces, paragraphs and the writing process, then argument and essays.

🐝 Grammar & Spelling

Conventions: parts of speech, capital letters and end marks, plurals, tenses and contractions, spelling the patterns taught, editing in context, spelling rules, commonly confused words.