Teaching Content
Curriculum of Reading Upgrade
The map below shows the 50 lessons that students must complete in order to finish the Reading Upgrade course. The lessons begin with phonics and phonemic awareness and rapidly introduce common sight words, word decoding, and multi-syllable words. The final 10 lessons cover passage comprehension concepts, with extensive practice reading a variety of text. Below this map is a listing of concepts and in what levels they are covered.
| Subject | Topic | Levels Covering Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Letter Sounds | Single-letter sounds, consonants + short vowels | 1 (A-I), 4 (J-R), 7 (S-Z) |
| Short Vowels focus | 10 | |
| Long Vowels / Silent E | 13 (words), 12 (sentences) | |
| Ending Conson. 2-letter blends | 11 (words), 12 (sentences) | |
| Beginning Consonant 2-letter blends | 15,21(words) 16,22 (sentences) | |
| Vowel 2-letter blends | 17, 19, 23, 25 (words) 18,20,24,26 (sentences) | |
| Silent Sounds | 27 | |
| Word Decoding | 3-Letter C-V-C Words | 2 (A-I), 5 (J-R), 8 (S-Z) |
| Sight Words: Common / High-Frequency | 3,6,9,12,14,16,18,20,22,24,26 (3 per level) | |
| Silent-E Words | 13 | |
| Words with 2-Letter Blends | 11,13,15,17,19,21,23,25 | |
| Word Families | 28,30 (words) 29,31 (sentences) | |
| Prefixes | 32 (words) | |
| Suffixes | 33 (words) | |
| Compund Words | 34 (words) | |
| Syllabification / Long Words | 35, 36 | |
| Numbers (in text) | 38 | |
| Days of Week / Months | 39 | |
| Contractions | 37 | |
| Sentence Reading | 3-sentence riddles | 16, 22 |
| Sentences with blends | 12, 14 | |
| Comprehension | 3-sentence riddles | 16, 22 |
| Sentence completion | 18, 20 | |
| 2-sentence rhymes | 24,26 | |
| True/False Passages | 29, 31 | |
| Sentences with Prefix/Suffix Words | 35 | |
| Contractions | 37 | |
| Reading Invitations | 39 | |
| Following Directions/Maps | 40 | |
| Follow Instructions | 41 | |
| Details: Who, What, Where, When, Why | 42 | |
| Order & Sequence | 43 | |
| Compare & Contrast | 44 | |
| Cause & Effect | 45 | |
| Facts & Opinion | 46 | |
| Main Idea / Theme | 47 | |
| Conclusions & Inferences | 48 | |
| Letters & Email | 49 | |
| Challenge Game | 50 |