Students should be starting to read CVC words (such as hat, bug, and tan) and CCVC words (such as frog, trip, swim and glen). These skills will be supported and practiced as well, so they do now need to be completely independent in reading these words yet. Each week, we will focus on a few word families. Some weeks will use diphthongs and other word families that are fundamental parts of phonics learning (-ay, -ow, -aw, -oy/-oi, -all, -ill, -ell, -ing, -ang, -ong, -ung, -or, -ar, -er/-ir/-ur,...