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Grade 1 Content Examples | Grade 2 Content Examples
Grade 3 Content Examples | Grades 4–6 Content Examples
The Guided Spelling program content follows a developmental sequence, progressing from alphabetic spelling to patterns to morphemic spelling. Each level emphasizes high-frequency spelling patterns and irregular words. This chart shows the developmental sequence over the first three grades of the program.
| Overview of Guided Spelling, Grades 1–3 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 1 | Grade 2 | Grade 3 | |
| Spelling Knowledge | ● | ● | ● |
| Phonemic | ● | ● | ● |
| Consonants | ● | ● | |
| Short vowels | ● | ● | ● |
| Consonant digraphs | ● | ● | ● |
| Consonant clusters | ● | ● | |
| Long vowel-consonant-e | ● | ● | |
| Vowel digraphs | ● | ● | |
| r-controlled vowels | ● | ● | |
| Introduction to types of syllables | ● | ||
| Morphemic | ● | ● | ● |
| Inflectional endings | ● | ● | ● |
| Adding s | ● | ● | ● |
| Adding es | ● | ● | |
| Doubling the final consonant | ● | ● | |
| Adding s, ed, and ing to final-e words | ● | ● | |
| Adding endings on words that end with consonant-y | ● | ||
| Spelling possessives | ● | ||
| Introduction to prefixes and suffixes | ● | ||
| Other | ● | ● | |
| Spelling homophones, compound words, contractions, and numbers | ● | ● | |
| Spelling abbreviations, weekdays, and months | ● | ||
| Strategies | ● | ● | ● |
| Phonemic segmentation | ● | ||
| Spelling think words | ● | ● | ● |
| Spelling pattern words | ● | ● | |
| Spelling irregular words | ● | ● | ● |
| Polysyllabic spelling | ● | ||
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