Benchmark Advance Grade 1 Phonics Skills and Spelling Words Unit Week Phonics Spiral Review Spelling Words had, has, pack, ran, see, she, back, cap, sack, 1 Short a N/A pans Short i; 1 2 Short a big, him, hit, kick, kids, lid, little, you, fit, lips Plural Nouns Short o; box, doll, hot, jump, lock, mop, one, rock, 3 Short i Double Final Consonants tops, cots ten, jet, fed, neck, let, mess, look, are, beg, 1 Short e Short o sell Short u; come, cup, duck, dull, here, nut, rug, cub, sun, 2 2 Short e Inflectional Ending -s cuff class, clock, flat, glad, plan, put, what, slip, 3 l-Blends Short u black, plums r-Blends: br, cr, dr, fr, gr, pr, tr; brim, crab, trim, went, frog, drip, grass, prop, 1 l-Blends Singular Possessives trip, now s-Blends: sk, sl, sm, sn, sp, st, sw; skip, step, skin, smell, out, was, spin, sled, 3 2 r-Blends Contractions with ’s spot, slip Final Consonant Blends: nd, nk, nt, mp, st; jump, and, pink, hand, nest, went, who, good, 3 s-Blends Inflectional Ending -ed trunk, best Consonant Digraphs th, sh, ng; bath, bring, our, shop, shut, these, thing, 1 Final Consonant Blends nd, nk, nt, mp, st Inflectional Ending -ing wish, this, rang Consonant Digraphs ch, tch, wh; Consonant Digraphs chop, lunch, catch, check, once, when, whiff, 4 2 Closed Syllables th, sh, ng much, match, hurt Three-Letter Blends scr, spl, spr, squ, str; split, strap, scrub, squid, stretch, scratch, 3 Consonant Digraphs ch, tch, wh Plurals (-es) because, when, sprint, squish take, made, came, plate, brave, game, right, 1 Long a (final -e) Three-Letter Blends scr, spl, spr, squ, str start, make, skate home, broke, rode, those, spoke, hole, how, 5 2 Long o (final -e) Long a (final -e) under, close, bone Soft c, g; gem, cent, race, page, dance, strange, face, 3 Long o (final -e) Contractions with not far, try, stage Long i (final -e); mine, nice, line, ride, time, white, slice, bike, 1 Soft c, g Vowel-Consonant-e Syllables after, call 6 Long e (final -e) and Long u (final -e); these, use, cute, Pete, Steve, huge, long, off, 2 Inflectional Endings (-ed, -ing, dropping Long i (final -e) mule, cube final -e) Long a Vowel Teams (ai, ay); Long e (final -e) and stay, paint, mail, way, rain, spray, trail, pay, 3 Inflectional Endings (-ed, -ing, double final Long u (final -e) year, live consonant) soap, go, flows, show, found, your, cold, hoe, 1 Long o Vowel Teams and Single Letters Long a Vowel Teams toe, toast Long e Vowel Teams and Single Letters; brief, each, field, fleas, people, seat, we, 2 Long o Vowel Teams Prefixes un-, re- wheels, where, need 7 Long i Vowel Teams and Single Letters; sky, tie, find, high, why, bright, pies, again, 3 Long e Vowel Teams Open Syllables country, child r-Controlled Vowel /är/; hard, start, park, farm, sharp, yard, dark, part, 1 Long i Vowel Teams Compound Words boy, four short, door, born, store, soar, fork, thorn, 8 2 r-Controlled Vowel /ôr/ r-Controlled Vowel /är/ more, move, change r-Controlled Vowel /ûr/; turn, first, bird, clerk, nurse, serve, shirt, hurt, 3 r-Controlled Vowel /ôr/ Vowel-r Syllables earth, every Vowel Pattern /ou/; loud, how, down, count, round, frown, 1 Comparative Inflectional Endings r-Controlled Vowel /ûr/ sprout, brown, before, done -er, -est 9 Vowel Pattern /oi/; join, toy, coin, boy, spoil, joy, point, moist, 2 Vowel Pattern /ou/ Suffix -ly walk, buy Vowel Pattern /oo/, /oo/; soon, hook, good, bloom, smooth, wood, 3 Vowel Pattern /oi/ Vowel Team Syllables shook, tooth, does, another gnat, knight, knob, know, sign, wrap, wrist, 1 Silent Letters Vowel Pattern /oo/, /oo/ wrong, better, learn Vowel Sound /ô/; caught, chalk, draw, father, fault, never, 2 Silent Letters Suffixes small, taught, yawn, launch 10 Long e Spelled -y, -ey; lucky, valley, windy, hockey, easy, turkey, 3 Vowel Sound /ô/ Consonant-le Syllables penny, chimney, blue, eight © Benchmark Education Company, LLC .