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Content & Sequence

Seventy-five interactive, voice-narrated lessons compose Discover Intensive Phonics. The following table describes the content and sequence of these lessons:

Lesson 1	Introduction to the course and instructions in computer operation.
Lesson 2	Name, sound, formation, and position on the keyboard of the vowel A.
Lesson 3	Name, sound, formation, and position on the keyboard of the consonant B.
Lesson 4	Joining consonants and vowel sounds to form a “slide.” How to mark and pronounce slides using the vowel A and the learned consonant B.
Lesson 5	Name, sound, formation, and position on the keyboard of the consonant F. fa slide.
Lesson 6	Name, sound, formation, and position on the keyboard of the consonant D. da slide.
Lesson 7	Name, sound, formation, and position on the keyboard of the consonant G. ga slide.
Lesson 8	What constitutes a word? Adding ending consonants to slides to form words. Marking the vowel in words and introduction of “nonsense” words. Reading and spelling words using the four consonants and vowel learned in previous lessons.
Lesson 9	Name, sound, formation, and position on the keyboard of the consonant H. ha slide. Reading and spelling now include H.
Lesson 10	Name, sound, formation, and position on the keyboard of the consonant J. ja slide. Reading and spelling now include J.
Lesson 11	Name, sound, formation, and position on the keyboard of the consonant L. la slide. Reading and spelling now include L.
Lesson 12	Name, sound, formation, and position on the keyboard of the consonant M. ma slide. Reading and spelling now include M.
Lesson 13	Name, sound, formation, and position on the keyboard of the vowel E. Key word for E. How to pronounce slides formed from the eight previously learned consonants and the vowel E. Reading and spelling words using the eight consonants and the vowels A and E.
Lesson 14	Introduction of the first set of Most Common Words. Reading, spelling, pronouncing, and identifying these words: I, a, the, no, it, is, his, at, in, my, have, as, has.
Lesson 15	Name, sound, formation, and position on the keyboard of the consonant N, including na and ne slides. Reading and spelling now include N.
Lesson 16	Name, sound, formation, and position on the keyboard of the consonant P, including pa and pe slides. Reading and spelling now include P.
Lesson 17	Name, sound, formation, and position on the keyboard of the consonant R, including ra and re slides. Reading and spelling now include R.
Lesson 18	Name, sound, formation, and position on the keyboard of the consonant S, including sa and se slides. Reading and spelling now include S.
Lesson 19	Name, sound, formation, and position on the keyboard of the vowel O. Key word for O. Joining O with the 12 previously learned consonants to form slides. Reading and spelling with the 12 learned consonants and three learned vowels.
Lesson 20	Introduction of the second set of Most Common Words: to, do, he, me, you, your, doing, mother, father, come, some, are, what, where, from, said.
Lesson 21	Name, sound, formation, and position on the keyboard of the consonant T, including ta, te, and to slides. Reading and spelling now include T.
Lesson 22	Name, sound, formation, and position on the keyboard of the consonant V, including va, ve, and vo slides. Reading and spelling now include V.
Lesson 23	Name, sound, formation, and position on the keyboard of the consonant W, including wa, we, and wo slides. Reading and spelling now include W.
Lesson 24	Name, sound, formation, and position on the keyboard of the consonants X and Y. Forming words from the ya, ye, and yo slides. The special “ks” sound of the letter X as it is used at the end of words.
Lesson 25	Name, sound, formation, and position on the keyboard of the vowel U. Key word for U. How to pronounce slides formed from the previously learned consonants and the vowel U. Reading and spelling with the 17 consonants and four learned vowels.
Lesson 26	Introduction of the third set of Most Common Words: off, on, one, once, she, been, work, word, give, done, we, were, here, this, was, does.
Lesson 27	Name, sound, formation, and position on the keyboard of the consonant Z, including za, ze, zo, and zu slides. Name, formation, and position on the keyboard of the consonant Q. Standing alone, Q has no sound. When followed by the letter U, it says “kwuh.” When Q and U are next to one another, they are to be joined with an arc, and U is no longer viewed as a vowel.
Lesson 28	Name, sound, formation, and position on the keyboard of the vowel I. Key word for I. How to pronounce slides formed from the previously learned consonants and the vowel I. Reading and spelling with the 19 consonants and five vowels.
Lesson 29	Name, sound, formation, and position on the keyboard of the consonants C and K. C and K share the same sound, “kuh.”
Lesson 30	Spelling with C and K. The vowels tell when a word should begin with C or K.
Lesson 31	Introduction of the fourth set of Most Common Words: want, could, would, should, they, their, there, eye, of, who, both, friend, build.
Lesson 32	Introduction and pronunciation of the six L-Blends: bl, cl, fl, gl, pl, and sl. Forming slides by joining L-Blend sounds to vowel sounds. Learning to read, spell, and mark L-Blend words.
Lesson 33	Introduction to words that end with double S, F, and Z. Making words plural by adding -s or -es.
Lesson 34	Introduction and pronunciation of the seven R-Blends: br, cr, dr, fr, gr, pr, and tr. Slides formed by joining the sounds of R-Blends to vowel sounds. Reading, spelling, and marking words using the R-Blends.
Lesson 35	Introduction and pronunciation of the Special Vowel Combinations all, ell, oll, ull, ill. Reading, spelling, and marking the double L Special Vowel Combinations.
Lesson 36	Introduction and pronunciation of the eight two-letter S-Blends: sc, sk, sl, sm, sn, sp, st, and sw and the five three-letter S-Blends: scr, spr, str, spl, and squ. The slides formed by joining the sounds of the S-Blends to vowel sounds. Reading, spelling, and marking words using S-Blends. Introduction of the tw and dw blends and reinforcement of the qu sound.
Lesson 37	Introduction of the fifth set of Most Common Words: pull, flood, full, blood, answer, don't, before, won't, brother, nothing, four, won, color, height, blue. Introduction to contractions with the words don’t and won’t.
Lesson 38	Introduction of the terms “short” and “long” vowels and use of diacritical markings.
Lesson 39	Introduction of Phonetic Skill #1. Explanation of the term “guardian,” defined as the consonant that immediately follows a vowel and causes the vowel to be short. Reading, spelling, and marking words using Phonetic Skill #1.
Lesson 40	Introduction of Phonetic Skill #2. Two guardians also cause the vowel to be short; they may or may not form a blend. Reading, spelling, and marking words using Phonetic Skills #1 and #2.
Lesson 41	Adding -ing to words with one guardian, two guardians, double Ls, and X.
Lesson 42	Use of the articles “the,” “a,” and “an.”
Lesson 43	Introduction of Phonetic Skill #3. When the vowel stands alone in a word (no guardians) and has a long vowel sound. Reading, spelling, marking, and adding -ing to words following Phonetic Skill #3.
Lesson 44	Introduction of Phonetic Skill #4 . Silent E makes the vowel long. Guardians are overruled by silent E. Reading, spelling, marking, and adding -ing to words following Phonetic Skill #4.
Lesson 45	A new sound for C and G. When followed by E or I, the sound of C changes to S. When followed by E or I, G will usually have the sound of J. Reading, spelling, and marking words containing the new C and G sounds.
Lesson 46	Adding -ing to silent E words by dropping the E and adding -ing.
Lesson 47	Introduction to Phonetic Skill #5: adjacent vowels make the first vowel long. Reading, spelling, and marking words using Phonetic Skill #5.
Lesson 48	Review of adding -ing. Spelling words ending with the sound “kuh.”
Lesson 49	Contractions. Making contractions with not, are, is, us, am, will, and would. Which letters are taken out and replaced with the apostrophe when making contractions.
Lesson 50	Introduction of the sixth set of Most Common Words: carry, marry, any, many, bury, busy, buy, goes, guess, door, floor, woman, women, eight, weigh, weight, enough. Reading, spelling, pronouncing, and identifying these words. Introduction to two of the many jobs of Y and the three sounds of gh.
Lesson 51	Introduction of the ar Murmur Diphthong. Murmur Diphthong words will not have guardians. Reading, spelling, and marking ar Murmur Diphthong words.
Lesson 52	Introduction of the or Murmur Diphthong. Reading, spelling, and marking or Murmur Diphthong words.
Lesson 53	Introduction of er, ur, and ir Murmur Diphthongs. All three have the same sound. Reading, spelling, and marking Murmur Diphthong words.
Lesson 54	Exceptions to Murmur Diphthong words: silent E, adjacent vowels, and W.
Lesson 55	Introduction of the seventh set of Most Common Words: earn, learn, early, heard, gone, great, long, light, laugh, island, lose, money, by, love, genius.
Lesson 56	Introduction to Digraphs. How to recognize, pronounce, and mark the Digraphs ch, sh, th (voiced), th (voiceless), and wh. Reading, spelling, and marking words with Digraphs.
Lesson 57	More Digraphs. New spellings for sounds already taught: ph, gn, kn, wr, and ck. Reading, spelling, and marking words using these five Digraphs.
Lesson 58	Digraph blends: thr, shr, phl, phr, chl, chr, and sch. Reading, spelling, and marking words using Digraph blends.
Lesson 59	Making plurals by adding -es or -s. Spelling with tch and dge. Reading, spelling, and marking plurals and words that end in tch or dge.
Lesson 60	Introduction of the eighth set of Most Common Words: ever, never, every, very, says, move, put, push, shoe, through, view, wrong, seven, only, onion, iron, pretty.
Lesson 61	Introduction of the Special Vowel Sound au/aw (pigpen). Recognizing, pronouncing, and marking the au/aw Special Vowel Sound (pigpen).
Lesson 62	Introduction of the Special Vowel Sound ou/ow (pigpen). Recognizing, pronouncing, and marking the ou/ow Special Vowel Sound (pigpen).
Lesson 63	Introduction of the Special Vowel Sound oi/oy (pigpen). Recognizing, pronouncing, and marking the oi/oy Special Vowel Sound (pigpen)
Lesson 64	Introduction of the Special Vowel Sound oo (pigpen). Two combinations of the same spelling but two different sounds: oo (zoo) and oo (look). Recognizing, pronouncing, and marking the two double O Special Vowel Sounds (pigpens).
Lesson 65	Introduction of the ninth set of Most Common Words: walk, talk, wash, youth, young, junior, two, toward, together, though, thought, beauty, again, sure, sugar, ton, truth.
Lesson 66	The many jobs of Y. Recognizing Y as a consonant and as a vowel. Using the Five Phonetic Skills to determine when Y says the sound of short I.
Lesson 67	More jobs of Y. Using the Five Phonetic Skills to determine when Y will say long I and when Y is a silent adjacent vowel.
Lesson 68	Decoding Skill #1. What is a syllable? The first rule for dividing words into syllables. The last job of Y: long E. Decoding, reading, and spelling two-syllable words.
Lesson 69	Practice decoding multi-syllabic words containing Murmur Diphthongs, Digraphs, blends, and double ls.
Lesson 70	Decoding Skill #2. The second rule for dividing words into syllables.
Lesson 71	Decoding words with silent E and adjacent vowels. Practice writing sentences.
Lesson 72	Decoding words of three or more syllables.
Lesson 73	The word endings -tion, -sion, and -ous. Practice reading, spelling, and decoding words with -tion, -sion, and -ous.
Lesson 74	Review of all multi-syllabic decoding. Words ending in -le. A syllable with only a vowel “sound.” Reading and spelling words ending in -le.
Lesson 75	Exceptions to the decoding skills in words such as robin, camel, cabin, etc. How to identify and read.