The class is relaxed and usually happy, but we are following a planned structured approach to literacy and it is important that students follow along.
 In class we will do phoneme recognition exercises and directed printing practice (lower case only) in our phonics text/workbook, then practice reading and printing some high frequency words and sentences in our little readers and matched workbooks, or reading a decodable story in our decodable readers and doing some practice writing decodable words. Each day we practice  work from previous classes and we learn two to four new words. We sound out all words and always use phonics skills to decode; students at this stage are still working on vowels but can use consonants to verify their reading. We don't do memorize and guess, and we use pictures only for enrichment.
Over the course of six weeks we will aim to cover Level 1 and 17 words in the Ladybird Key Words Readers (high frequency words, connected text, fluency), twenty plus pages of consonants in Check and Double Check Phonics Book 1, plus the vowels short a and short i to support SPELD, and about six little decodable stories from the beginning part of SPELD Level 1. Please note that speed and coverage is adjusted according to student needs and can vary highly depending on age, language issues, coordination and ability to write, etc.

Approximate schedule planning (variable according to need)

Week 1: 
CDC Phonics Book 1 unit 1   b, f, m
Ladybird Book 1a pages 4 to 14  about six high frequency words (and, here, is, the, dog, like/likes), workbook pages 1 to 5 same vocabulary, book 1c for extra practice
SPELD go over sounds s, a, t, p, i, n then read one or two simple booklets/stories A Tin, An Ant, A Tap

Week 2:
finish CDC Phonics Unit 1, Start Unit 2  t, s, c
Ladybird Book 1a pages 15 to 25  about six high frequency words (I, in, it, shop, has, ball), workbook pages 6 to 10 same vocabulary, book 1c for extra practice
 SPELD go over sounds s, a, t, p, i, n then read one or two simple booklets/stories A Tin, An Ant, A Tap, A Pan

Week 3:
finish CDC Phonics Unit 2  t, s, c
Ladybird Book 1a pages 26  to 36  about six high frequency words (toy, tree, play, with), workbook pages 11 to 16 same vocabulary, book 1c for extra practice
 SPELD go over sounds s, a, t, p, i, n then read one or two simple booklets/stories A Tin, An Ant, A Tap, A Pan, Ants in Ann's Pants, etc.

Week 4:
CDC Phonics Unit 3  d, r, h
Ladybird Book 1a pages 36 to 46  about five high frequency words (toy, tree, play, with, us), workbook pages 17 to 22 same vocabulary, book 1c for extra practice
 SPELD go over sounds s, a, t, p, i, n then read one or two booklets/stories A Tin, An Ant, A Tap, A Pan, Ants in Ann's Pants, etc.

Week 5:
CDC Phonics finish Unit 3  d, r, h, start Unit 4 p. g. l
Ladybird Book 1b pages 4 to 22  review 17 words from Book 1, workbook pages 23  to 27 same vocabulary, book 1c for extra practice
 SPELD go over sounds s, a, t, p, i, n then read one or two simple booklets/stories A Tin, An Ant, A Tap, A Pan, Ants in Ann's Pants, etc.

Week 6:
CDC Phonics finish Unit 3  d, r, h, start Unit 4 p. g. l
Ladybird Book 1b pages 23 to 46  review 17 words from Book 1a, workbook pages 23  to 27 same vocabulary, book 1c for extra practice
 SPELD go over sounds s, a, t, p, i, n then read one or two slightly more complex booklets/stories  A Pan, Ants in Ann's Pants, Stan and the Ass etc.