ICANSPELL LEVEL 2
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Level 2 of ICANSPELL contains 40 lessons
I have listed the major concepts for each lesson below. You can purchase ICANSPELL Level 2 in either paper or e-mailed PDF form.
ICANSPELL Level 2
- Dictation Pad 2-01 to 2-08
- Lesson 01
- One syllable short vowel words--the letter a
- The consonant team th
- The consonant blends nt, nd, st, fl and tr
- The double consonants dd and ss
- Lesson 02
- One syllable short vowel words--the letter e
- The consonant team ck
- The consonant blends lt, sp, lp, nd and sk
- The double consonants gg, ss and ll
- Lesson 03
- One syllable short vowel words--the letter i
- The consonant teams ch and sh
- The consonant blends gr, bl, nk and sw
- Lesson 04
- Short vowel words--the letter o
- Syllable breaks may come between consonants in consonant blends
- The letter f with t (ft) and doubled (ff)
- Lesson 05
- Short vowel words--the letter u
- Syllable breaks between double consonants
- The consonant team zz
- Lesson 06
- Long vowel words--the letter a
- Consonant blends may contain three consonants
- Breaking words into syllables
- Lesson 07
- Long vowel words--the letter e
- The consonant blends gl and sn
- The consonant team ze
- Consonant teams may blend with a third consonant (thr, thw)
- Lesson 08
- Long vowel words--the letter i
- The consonant teams wh and wr
- The consonant blends pr and sl
- Dictation Pad 2-09 to 2-16
- Lesson 09
- Long vowel words--the letter o
- The consonant blend sm
- Lesson 10
- The letter u making the sound of short oo
- The letter o making the sound of short u
- Lesson 11
- The vowel team ea making the long e sound
- The consonant blends cl and dr
- Lesson 12
- Short vowel words--the letter i
- Two consonants coming between two vowels
- The consonant blend ft
- Lesson 13
- Short vowel words--the letters a, e and i
- Some words can be pronounced two ways
- Doubling the consonant t (but not v) to preserve a short sound
- The consonant blends cr and lf
- Using syllable breaks to discern between consonant blends and non blends
- Lesson 14
- The vowel teams oy and oi
- Lesson 15
- Words that end in the letter y
- Rules for adding the suffix y
- Lesson 16
- The vowel team aw making the short sound of o
- The vowel team aw followed by l, k and n
- The consonant blend str
- Dictation Pad 2-17 to 2-24
- Lesson 17
- Long vowel words--the letter y
- The letter y at the end of a root
- The letter e making the y sound long (dye)
- The consonant blends fr and pl
- Lesson 18
- The letter r making a preceding o sound long (for)
- Breaking between syllables in or words (cor-ner)
- The letter e making o sound long (wore)
- Adding suffix y to store (story)
- Lesson 19
- The consonant team ng
- The consonant blend nk
- Breaking the consonant team ng between syllables (an-gry)
- See
Lesson 2-19
- Lesson 20
- The vowel team ow making the sound of long o
- The vowel team ow followed by n and l
- Lesson 21
- The letter r forces an otherwise short vowel to make the sound in "her"
- Exceptions: when there is a vowel after the r (siren)
- Doubling the r between vowels (hurry) keeps the u from saying yoo (fury)
- Lesson 22
- Contractions with not, will, had or would, am, and have
- Lesson 23
- The consonant team th in its voiced form
- Lesson 24
- Words that begin with the letters qu
- Words that begin with the consonant team kn
- Dictation Pad 2-25 to 2-32
- Lesson 25
- The vowel team ou making the sound in "out"
- Words can be pronounced two ways
- Lesson 26
- The letter c sounding like s
- The consonant blend tw
- Lesson 27
- Words containing the letters ing
- The suffix ing
- The letters ing in a root
- Lesson 28
- The letter g sounds like j before e, i, and y
- Exceptions: girl, get
- The letters ge are used to make the j sound at the end of a word
- Lesson 29
- The vowel team oo as in good
- The vowel team oo as in food
- Lesson 30
- The vowel team ea as in cheap
- The vowel team ea as in heard
- The vowel team ea as in head
- Lesson 31
- The consonant team gh is usually silent
- The letters igh make the sound of long i
- The letters eigh makes the sound of long a
- Discerning between lightening and lightning
- Lesson 32
- The vowel team ou sounding like short o (ought)
- The vowel team ou sounding like short u (enough)
- The vowel team ou sounding like short form of vowel team oo (could)
- The vowel team ou sounding like long form of vowel team oo (group)
- Dictation Pad 2-33 to 2-40
- Lesson 33
- Short vowel words--the letter a
- In a word that has two consonants between vowels (jacket) the first vowel is almost always short
- In many long words the first vowel is short even if there is only one consonant between vowels (planet)
- Additional exceptions: what, father, and mamma
- Lesson 34
- The sound of long a spelled with a-consonant-silent e (gaze)
- The sound of long a spelled with the vowel team ai (nail)
- The sound of long a spelled with the vowel team ay (pay)
- Lesson 35
- The special letter team ar (arm)
- Lesson 36
- Short vowel words--the letter i
- Doubling consonants between vowels to keep first vowel short (big/bigger)
- Lesson 37
- The sound of long i spelled with i-consonant-silent e (rise)
- The sound of long i spelled with ind (kind)
- The sound of long i before a syllable beginning with a vowel (di-et)
- The sound of long i because i is the last letter in its syllable (pi-lot)
- Lesson 38
- A variety of long vowel words--letters a, e and o
- Lesson 39
- A variety of vowel team words--teams ow and ou
- Lesson 40
- Seven pairs of homophones (ate/eight)