Scope & Sequence / Crosswalk
Compare our Scope and Sequence (below) to the structured literacy curriculum you use to determine which Level and Lesson your students should practice reading at.
If you aren't sure where the student's reading skill is at, try reading short stories at the end of each level (for example, Level 1, Lesson 6). To speed up the assesment, ask the student to read only the bolded words.
If they do well, move to Level 2, Lesson 6, then to Level 3, Lesson 6, until you find where your student's reading skills break down. Once you find the Level your student struggles on, repeat the process with each lesson in that level. When you find the lesson your student is struggling, that's where you'll focus on your instruction. Use the DIVI library to support your instruction and practice reading in engaging, authentic texts.
Level 1 - Letters & Sounds, Basic Digraphs
Lesson 1 - short letter a, consonants m, n, p, r, s, t - Extra Resources
Lesson 2 - short letter o, consonants c, d, g
Lesson 3 - short vowel i, consonants b, f, l
Heart Words - set one - the, of, and, to, a, is, this, I, as, was, has, do
Lesson 4 - Short vowels u and e, consonants h, j, k, v, w
Lesson 5 - Leftover Letters - Consonants qu, x, y, z, teach plural -s (reading only, optional)
Lesson 6 - Basic Digraphs - sh, th, ch, wh, ck. Learn the difference between voiced and quiet sounds with digraph /th/
Heart Words - set two - for, you, or, no, they, see, so, his, how, go, her, want
Level 2 - Blends, Digraph Blends, Three Letter Blends
Lesson 1 - Blends at the End - Letter blends at the end of CVCC of words, teach plural -es (reading only, optional)
Lesson 2 - Blends at the Beginning - Letter blends at the beginning of CCVC of words
Lesson 3 - Blends at both ends - Beginning and ending blends in one word (CCVCC), blends on one end, digraphs on another
Heart Words - set three - all, be, by, from, have, he, said, she, some, we, were, what, when, why, your, yours
Lesson 4 - Digraph Blends - Blends including a digraph nch xth lsh pth
Lesson 5 - Witch Punch - Learn how to spell the /ch/ sound at end of a word, CH or TCH
Lesson 6 - Three letter blends
Heart Words - set four - come, could, look, make, more, my, should, than, their, them, then, these, way, which, would
Level 3 - Closed and Unit Syllables
Lesson 1 - Floss Rule - End of a one syllable word with a short vowel, F, L, S, Z will be doubled. Teach suffixes -ed and -ing and three sounds of -ed (reading only, optional)
Lesson 2 - Hulk Stuck - Spell the sound /k/ at the end of a word. K or CK
Lesson 3 - Learn to spell the /k/ sound and read soft C in words. "Magic Vowels" (e, i, y,)
​Heart Words - set five - goes, does, Mr., Mrs., says, two, where, any, one, been, there, done, too, out, who, twos, ones
Lesson 4 - Wild Colts Units - Glued sounds or Units, -all, -oll, -old, -olt -ost, -ild, -ind
Lesson 5 - Hank Sings Units - Glued sounds or Units, -ng, -nk (ang, ing, ong, ung, ank, ink, onk, unk)
Lesson 6 - Contractions - How to add contractions, teach strange ones, (not) can't, won't; let's, have and would
Heart Words - set six - both, day, down, here, know, like, made, none, now, once, part, pull, put, sure, time, times, likes, days, knows, parts, downs, puts, pulls, pulled, pulling
Level 4 - Open Syllables & Syllable Division
Lesson 1 - Open syllables, Review long vowel sounds, Super Human - long U can make two sounds
Lesson 2 - Syllable Division Rule #1 - One consonant between two vowels
Lesson 3 - Fly Crazy - one syllable word ending Y says its long sound, end of two syllable word Y says /ee/.
Heart Words - set seven - many, again, also, very, push, please, about, father, mother, brother, sister, love, friend, our, only
Lesson 4 - Syllable Division Rule #2 - Dividing between two consonants between two vowels ​
Lesson 5 - Try Reply/Always Call - In multi-syllable words, most ot the time ending Y will say /ee/. Otherwise, Try Reply (long i sound). When to spell "all" vs "al"
Lesson 6 - Cactus Licking Monkey - Spelling /k/ in the middle - C, CK, K.
Heart Words - set eight - above, are, because, blue, busy, else, every, first, front, gone, laugh, nothing, other, soon, yellow
Level 5 - Tricky Spellings and More Syllable Division
Lesson 1 - Epic Trick - Spelling /ic/ at the end
Lesson 2 - Extra Exam - Read and spell EX
Lesson 3 - Snappy - Spelling–Double Letters in the middle
Heart Words - set nine - after, change, cover, give, great, into, listen, little, name, people, right, sound, strange, through, year
Lesson 4 - PH and Medial Y - Greek spellings, when and how to use PH and Medial Y
Lesson 5 - Syllable Division Rule #3 and Compound Words - How to divide words with three consonants between the vowels, how to divide compound words
Lesson 6 - Syllable Division Rule #4, multi-syllable words - Dividing with four or five consonants between vowels, dividing multi-syllable words
Heart Words - set ten - hour, answer, month, house, year, word, saw, egg, most, odd, knew, four, thought, won, wash
Lesson 7 - Magic Vowels #2 (soft g) - G is followed by a Magic Vowel (e, i, y) says /j/
Level 6 - Spelling Schwa
Lesson 1 - Sneaky Schwa Intro - What is schwa? Sound and symbol, teach stressed and unstressed syllables
Lesson 2 - Instant Bacon - When an "a" or "o" is in a closed, unstressed syllable, it changes to schwa.
Lesson 3 - Model Pupil - ANY vowel followed by L can change to schwa in unstressed syllable
Heart Words - set 11 - son, daughter, parent, county, eye, money, half, own, woman, young, use, user, used, floor, door
Lesson 4 - Alaska - A is the only vowel that will change to schwa in an open, unstressed syllable
Lesson 5 - More Digraphs - New digraphs ti, si, ci, gi - Including Suffix -ous and teaching that these digraphs will automatically make a closed A or O change to schwa. Teach -tion, -sion
Lesson 6 - Atheletic Pelican - Open I or E in a middle syllable (words with 3 syllables or more) will make its short sound.
Heart Words - set 12 - before, build, buy, came, chalk, during, mean, rough, same, talk, tough, truth, walk, women
Level 7 - Vowel Team Syllables
Lesson 1 - Introduce vowel teams and vowel team syllables. Spelling long A with ai, ay. Teach -ed and -ing for reading.
Lesson 2 - Spelling Long E - (ee Vowel Team) EE can be used at the beginning, middle or end. Teach /eer/
Lesson 3 - More ways to spell Long E - ea at beginning, middle, or ey at the end
Heart Words - set 13 - around, awful, boy, enough, follow, honest, length, mountain, often, pretty, shoe, strength, three, whose
Lesson 4 - Spelling Long I - how and when to spell with ie or igh.
Lesson 5 - Spelling Long O - how and when to spell with oa, ow or oe.
Lesson 6 - Spelling Long U - how and when to spell with ue or ew
Heart Words - set 14 - baste, danger, dough, haste, loose, lose, paste, prove, range, real, really, taste, though, waste
Level 8 - Prefixes
Lesson 1 - dis- / in- / un- / non- / (all mean "not")
Lesson 2 - prefixes, mis- / sub- / re- / pre- (mis=wrong, sub=below or smaller, re=again, pre=before
Lesson 3 - inter- / mid- / over- / up- / under- (inter=between, mid=middle, over=too much, up=higher/upward/toward, under=beneath, below, less)
Heart Words - set 15 - beautiful, blood, bury, color, country, flood, large, move, sugar, touch, Tuesday, usual, usually, Wednesday
Lesson 4 - in-, im-, ir-, bi-, tri-, multi-, semi-
Lesson 5 - trans, anti, co, auto, self-
Lesson 6 - micro, macro, bio, geo
Heart Words - Review any heart words students are struggling with
Level 9 - Suffixes
Lesson 1 - Spelling plural -s and -es
Lesson 2 - Consonant suffixes -ness, -less, -ment, -ly, -ful
Lesson 3 - Spelling -ed and -ing, doubling rule
Heart Words - set 17 - clothes, February, January, message, minute, ocean, orange, promise, research, service, software, special
Lesson 4 - Vowel suffixes -er / -or / -an / -est / -ist / -y / -en /
Lesson 5 - More suffixes - al / -ous / -ive / -ic / -able / -ible / -ity
Lesson 6 - Change Rule - change /y/ to /i/ suffixes -ance, -ence, -ish
Heart Words - set 18
Level 10 - Advanced Vowel Teams (Coming Soon)
Lesson 1 - Two sounds of oo; ui says /oo/
Lesson 2 - au, aw, augh /aw/
Lesson 3 - ea makes three sounds
Heart Words - set 19
Lesson 4 - ie makes two sounds
Lesson 5 - Dipthongs oi, oy
Lesson 6 - Dipthongs ou, ow
Heart Words - set 20
Level 11 - Silent E (Coming Soon)
Lesson 1 - Silent E - in one syllable words
Lesson 2 - Huge Fridge - c, g, v, ge dge, spelling se vs ce
Lesson 3 - Silent E Units ace, ice, age, ine, ive, ite, ate, ture, sure
Heart Words - set 21
Lesson 4 - Dividing with silent-E
Lesson 5 - Drop rule with suffixes
Lesson 6 - Consonant-LE
Heart Words - set 22
Level 12 - R Controlled Vowels and Syllables (Coming Soon)
Lesson 1 - Far Car - Spelling "ar"
Lesson 2 - Corn Galore - Spelling or, ore
Lesson 3 - Her Bird has Fur - er, ir, ur; Reading and Spelling
Heart Words - set 23
Lesson 4 - Dear Pearl Bear - ear makes three sounds
Lesson 5 - Spare Airplane - air, ary, are /air/
Lesson 6 - Wonky W - W changes R-Controlled sounds
Heart Words - set 24
Level 13 - Split Vowel Teams & Silent Letters (Coming Soon)
Lesson 1 - ia, io
Lesson 2 - ie, ua
Lesson 3 - ea, prefixes
Heart Words - set 25
Lesson 4 - ui, ious, eous
Lesson 5 - Silent Letters kn, wr, mb
Lesson 6 - Silent Letters gn, ch, gu
Heart Words - set 26
Advanced Levels Coming Soon
Level 14 - Greek roots of words, like "phil-" or "ps-"
Level 15 - Latin roots of words
Level 16 - Other foreign language influences in English, including German, French, Italian, Spanish, etc
Level 17 - Games, Names and Slangs (pop culture references)