Provide explicit, systematic phonics instruction and practice in just 15 to 20 minutes a day! The Daily Phonics series helps students reading below grade level gain the phonemic awareness, decoding, and word-study skills necessary to read proficiently.

Daily Phonics, Grades 4-6+ helps struggling readers and English learners develop the phonics skills necessary to become proficient, on-grade-level readers. Students learn basic phonics skills typically mastered in grades 1, 2, and 3. Lessons and activities are designed with age-appropriate formats that respect the older learner.

The 32 weekly units in grades 4-6+ cover:

Initial, Medial, and Final Consonants: b, f, r, k, m, p, d, l, n

Initial, Medial, and Final Consonants: s, t, v, h, w, j, y, q, x, z

Short Vowel Sounds: a, e, i, o, u

CVC Words

Long Vowel Sounds: a, e, i, o, u

CVCe Words

Long Vowel Sounds of y

Hard and Soft c and g

Initial Consonant Blends with s, r, or l

Final Consonant Blends with t, d, p, or k

Initial and Final Consonant Digraphs: ch, sh, th, wh

Initial, Medial, and Final Consonant Digraphs: ck, ng, ph, gh

Variant Spellings of Consonant Sounds: tch, dge

Long a Vowel Digraphs: ai, ay

Long e Vowel Digraphs: ee, ea, ey, ie

Long i Vowel Patterns: ie, igh

Long o Vowel Digraphs: oa, ow, oe

Long u Vowel Digraphs: ue, ew, ui

R-Controlled Vowels: ar, or, er, ir, ur, air, are, ear

The Sounds of oo

Short Vowel Digraphs: ea, ou, ui

Variant Vowel Digraphs: au, aw, al

Diphthongs: ou, ow, oi, oy

Syllabication

The Schwa Sound

Silent Consonants: k, w, b, h, t, l

Plural Noun Endings: s, es, ves, ies

Irregular Plural Nouns

Inflectional Verb Endings: -ed, -ing, -s, -es

Contractions

Prefixes: re-, un-, mis-, dis-

Suffixes: -ful, -less, -ly, -er, -or, -ness