SPIRE Intervention Scope & Sequence
Explore the skills covered in each level of SPIRE Intervention and SPIRE Foundations: Sounds Sensible.
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SPIRE Foundations: Sounds Sensible
- Consonants
- Short a
SPIRE Level 1
- Short a
- Short i
- Short o
- Short u
- Short e
- sh
- ch
- th
- wh
- ang, ing, ong, ung
- ank, ink, onk, unk
- closed syllables
SPIRE Level 2
- ff, ll, ss
- al
- wa
- qu
- ck
- tch
- a-e, i-e, o-e, u-e, e-e
- Vse
SPIRE Level 3
- open syllables (so, he, fly)
- exceptions (ild, old, ind, ost, oll)
- ay
- -ed
- suffixes -s, -es, -ing, -er, -est, -en, -ish, -ly, -y, -ful, -ness, -less
- twin-consonant syllable division
- nontwin-consonant syllable division
- ou
- prefix a-
SPIRE Level 4
- ea
- consonant-le syllables
- oa
- ai
- ee
- oo
- igh
- ie
SPIRE Level 5
- soft c
- soft g
- er, ur, ir, ear, wor
- dge
- s = /z/
- ow
- kn
- oe
- or
- ar
SPIRE Level 6
- prefix a-, ending -a, suffix -able
- ph
- ought, aught
- ue, ew, tu
- oi, oy
- aw, au
- ey
- kn, wr, mb, gh, gu
- suffix -age
- open syllables (a/CV, i/CV, o/CV, u/CV, e/CV)