Like I said, Daughter A. began to pick up speed all of a sudden. It is as if something clicked in her brain. She is able to handle more pages per day, plus she no longer resists landscape reading. We went from two pages per day, to twice as much, all in the blink of an eye.

Your students will probably be like this, too. This is why we keep adjusting the number of pages read. Sometimes, only two will be read, other times they’ll read half a book. Some really quick students will read a whole book on the first try! Keeping the lessons flexible will make them satisfying for the student–not too much, not too little, but in the words of Goldilocks, “Just riiiight!”

Lesson One

Review sounds: short-a, b, c, d, g, h, m, n, short-o, r, soft-s, hard-s and t

Introduce new sound: short-i

Build words: sit, has, is

Review sight words: the, The, a, O.K.

Read Set 1, Book 5 (“Dot and Mit”) pp. 1-2.

Lesson Two

Review sounds: short-a, b, c, d, g, h, short-i, m, n, short-o, r, soft-s, hard-s and t

Introduce new sound: p

Build words: pit, pig

Review sight words: the, The, a, O.K.

Read Set 1, Book 5 (“Dot and Mit”) pp. 3-8.

Lesson Three

Review sounds: short-a, b, c, d, g, h, short-i, m, n, short-o, p, r, soft-s, hard-s and t

Build words: his, sip

Review sight words: the, The, a, O.K.

Introduce new sight word: I

Read Set 1, Book 5 (“Dot and Mit”) all the way through.