Week 1
Lesson 1
Introduction and the History of English
We'll start by learning the history of English and how we have arrived at where we are and which factors have influenced our spelling. We'll also start dismantling the idea that the job of English spelling is to represent sound, and we'll examine several examples of words that prove that the primary purpose of the spelling system is to represent meaning.
 Week 2
Lesson 2
Morphemes, Phonemes and Graphemes
Students will learn the definitions of phonemes, graphemes, and morphemes and how they work together to spell words. We'll also learn about Word Families and how words from the same base will share connections in meaning and spelling.
 Week 3
Lesson 3
Suffixing Rules Part 1
We'll take a closer look at suffixing and figuring out the suffixing rules for dropping a silent e and changing y to i. We will learn to think like "Word Scientists" to make hypotheses and then use words to test them and come to conclusions about the suffixing rules. We'll learn how to use flowcharts that help us apply the rules of suffixing.
 Week 4
Lesson 4
Suffixing Rules Part 2
We will continue to work with suffixing rules for doubling a final consonant and practice applying the suffixing rules by building word with a matrix. 
 Week 5
Lesson 5
Different Types of Bases
We will take a closer look at word families and start getting practice finding bases in words. We will learn the difference between a free base and a bound base and see how words from the same word family that share a base will also always share connections in meaning and spelling, regardless of pronunciation.
 Week 6
Lesson 6
Word Building
We will review and practice the suffixing rules by building words from both free and bound bases. 
 Week 7
Lesson 7
Four Questions
We will learn about four questions we can ask to help us determine how a word could be spelled, and we'll practice breaking words apart into their morphological pieces to see how determining a base word can help us understand a word's meaning and spelling as well as to find related words. We will learn how to use resources like etymonline to do research into a word's history.
 Week 8
Lesson 8
Content and Function Words
In this lesson, we will learn that we can group words into one of two groups, and see how the conventions for each of these groups can impact the way many commonly-used words are spelled.
 Week 9
Lesson 9
Etymological Markers
We'll learn that graphemes can have jobs in words other than to make sounds, and continue to see how a word's history and origins can impact its spelling. 
 Week 10
Lesson 10
Words from Greek and Latin origins
Greek and Latin are two major sources of words we still use in modern English, and in this lesson we will look at some of the bases and roots that come from these ancient languages. 
 Week 11
Lesson 11
The Difference Between Bases and Roots. 
We will investigate the relationship between words that have obvious connections in meaning yet seem to have unexplainable differences in spelling. Consider word pairs like divide/division, write/written, one/only - and many others! By the end of this lesson, learners will understand the relationship between words like these. 
 Week 12
Lesson 12
Summing It Up
In our final lesson of the class, we will learn more about how a word's history can impact its spelling and learn about the function of etymological markers. We'll also review and summarize our learning from the class.