S.P.I.R.E.®
A multisensory intervention reading program
by Sheila Clark-Edmands
Grades PK–8

Scope and Sequence
Initial placement within the S.P.I.R.E. program is based upon student skill level and can be determined with the Initial Placement Assessment. Sounds Sensible can be implemented within a 6-9 month period. Levels 1 through 8 can be completed within 2-4 academic years, as dictated by the needs of individual students.

	•		Phonological awareness and beginning phonics
	•		Consonant sounds
	•		Short vowel a
	•		Handwriting

	•		Short vowels a, i, o, u, e
	•		Consonant digraphs sh, ch, th, wh
	•		Welded sounds -ng, -nk

	•		Double consonants ff, ll, ss
	•		a as in ball and wasp
	•		Consonant combinations qu, ck, tch
	•		Vowel-Consonant-e

	•		Open syllables (so, he, fly)
	•		ild, old, ind, ost
	•		ay
	•		Three sounds of -ed
	•		Suffixes without base change
	•		Syllable division (twin and non-twin consonant)
	•		ou
	•		Prefix a-

	•		ee, ea, oa, ai, oo, ie
	•		Consonant-le
	•		Trigraph igh

	•		R-controlled vowels
	•		Trigraph dge
	•		Hard and soft c and g
	•		Sound of s as /z/
	•		ow, oe
	•		kn

•		Prefix a-, ending -a, -able
•		ph
•		ought, aught
•		ue, ew, tu
•		oy, oi
•		aw, au
•		ey
•		silent letters (kn, wr, mb, gh, gu)
•		-age /j/
•		Open syllables

	•		vv syllables
	•		-ct
	•		ei, eigh
	•		open syllable i as short i, open syllable i as long e
	•		-tion, -sion, ci, ti
	•		tu, ture, sure
	•		-ous
	•		-ent, -ant, -ance, -ence, -ancy, -ency
	•		ui, eu
	•		-er, -or, -ar, -ard

•		dis, mis, pre, pro, re, de, ic
•		-able, -ible, -le, -al, -el, -on, -an, -ain, -ine, -em, -it, -et, -ite, -ate
•		-ive, -ice, -ary, -ar
•		Prefix in, un, under, sub, con, com, cor, col
•		para, ab, ad, per
•		ex, ob, suc, suf, sug, sup, op
•		ion, ia, ior
•		ch, que