Week 1 - Foundational Story: Word Queen: The Beginning Support Activities: Treasure Hunt, Secret Word Lists
Week 2 - Digraphs Story: Alphabet Soup Focus: th, sh, ch, wh, ph, gh Support Activities: Word Queen Drops a secret package in the classroom, Kids add digraphs to the Alphabet Train
Week 3 - Qu Story: Game Day at the Playground Focus: qu Support Activities: Word Queen put a U beside the Q on that Alphabet train, Kids pair up and role play q and u
Week 4 - Combination of phonetics Story - Who Missed Manners Class? Focus: ow, ou, oo, ew, ue, ui Support Activities: Word Queen sends and invitation to a party for the kids and alphabet, Have a New Blue Suit Party
Week 5 - Silent E Story: Sneaky Scary Stranger Focus: silent e Support Activities: Wormygerm (silent e) appears at the end of nonsense words, kids get a pipe cleaner to transform into silent e
Week 6 - EY, IE, Y at the end of words Story: The Laughing Place Focus: ey, ie, y Support Activities: Tell stories and other folk and/or tall tales; Play story-telling game, Word Queen brings a treat but "You can't read it, so you c can't eat it"! she says
Week 7 - Double Letters and soft sound for C and G Story: The Twin Machine Focus: mm, ss, tt, etc. + ce, ci, cy, dge, ge, gi, gy Support Activities: Children role play being identical and graternal twins, Make easy homemade ice cream in a zip-loc bag and have an ice cream party
Week 8 - Silent Letters Story: The Spelling Bee Focus: kn, ld, wr (can also include: gn, mb, st) Support Activities: Having a Spelling Bee, Children play the game and pretend to be statues while listening to music
Week 9 - AL, AU, AW, WA Story: Three Silly Coats Fluff Focus: al, au, aw, wa Support Activities: Kids Color / Cut / Glue a pet of their choice, Kids have a pet show using bathtub toys (or the pet provided in the book)
Week 10 - R Controlled Vowels Story: The R Family Focus: ar, er, ir, or, ur Support Activities: Explore baby animals/noticing differences / similarities with parents, Walk around an envelope and wait for it to JUMP!
Week 11 - Long A and I Story: The Word Smasher 3000 Focus: ay, eigh, ey, igh, y, etc. Support Activities: Children have a hat making contest with decorations and words, Marshmallows are launched at the hats to try to destroy the words
Week 12 - Adjacent Vowels (coming soon) Story: The Picnic Focus: ai, ea, ee, oa, ou, etc. Support Activities: Kids begin a project gluing a vowel between two consonants, Word Queen enters the classroom and glues the vowels together
Week 13 - Diphthongs Story: Ahoy Maties! Focus: oy, oi Support Activities: Dress up as pirates, Word Queen leaves a treat so "You can't read it, so you can't eat it," she says