The Lexercise Structured Literacy

Curriculum™ Scope & Sequence

for Parents & Teachers

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The Lexercise Structured Literacy Curriculum™
Scope & Sequence for Parents & Teachers
The Lexercise Structured Literacy Curriculum™ is a structured literacy (aka. Orton-Gillingham)
approach for students whose struggles are related to decoding, spelling and writing. Research
suggests that 70-80% of students who struggle with reading and writing do so because of primary
weaknesses in decoding and spelling. This curriculum is designed to address the weaknesses
typical of dyslexia. There are 26 levels and 44 lessons.

In Professional Therapy, a therapist can customize a pace that fits each student’s needs and also
provide a pre-literacy Level 0 for an additional 8 lessons. In Basic Therapy and Lexercise for
Schools, the goal is to cover one lesson a week. The concepts taught at each level are listed
below.

Level 0 • Foundations of Literacy (only available in Professional Therapy)

Following simple spoken directions

Interaction and turn-taking
Responding to spoken questions
Basic pre-academic vocabulary words and concepts (e.g., colors, shapes, sizes, locations,
numbers, letter names, basic letter-sounds)
Listening to and participating in oral reading
Alphabetic foundations (e.g., reciting the alphabet, demonstrating knowledge of the
alphabetic sequence, identifying and naming letters and letter-sounds)
Writing letters
Numerical foundations (e.g., counting to 20, demonstrating knowledge of the numerical
sequence 0-12, identifying and naming numbers 0-20)

Level 1 • Basic Consonants & Vowels

Decoding and spelling words with the following letter-sounds: 7 basic consonants and 1
short vowel spelled -a-
Word parts: suffix -s
Reading and spelling the level’s sight words ( a, I, the, said, have, is, are, was, were)

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Level 2 • Basic Consonants & Vowels

Decoding and spelling words with the following letter-sounds: 14 basic consonants and 3
short vowels spelled -a-, -i- and -e-
Word parts: suffix -s
Reading and spelling the level’s sight words ( to, too, two, do, does, into, onto)

Level 3 • Basic Consonants & Vowels

Decoding and spelling words with the following letter-sounds: 20 basic consonants,
the digraph -ck, and all 5 short vowels spelled -a-, -e-, -i-, -o-, -u-
Multisyllabic words with 2 stressed, closed syllables
Word parts: suffix -s
Reading and spelling cumulative sight words and the level’s sight words (some, from, many,
any)

Level 4 • Multi-Syllable Words, Closed Syllables

Decoding and spelling words with the following letter-sounds: 20 basic consonants,
the digraph -ck, and all 5 short vowels spelled -a-, -e-, -i-, -o-, -u-
Multisyllabic words with 2 stressed, closed syllables
Word parts: suffix -s
Reading and spelling cumulative sight words and the level’s sight words (some, from, many,
any)

Level 5 • Base Words with Double Consonant Letters

Decoding and spelling words with the following letter-sounds: 20 basic consonants, all 5
short vowels and words with consonant doubling patterns: “f”, “l”, “s”, “z” following a short
vowel (e.g., “kiss”) and double letters in the middle (e.g., “rabbit”)
Word parts: suffixes -s, -less, and -ness
Reading and spelling cumulative sight words and the level’s sight words (who, what, when,
where, why, which, whose)

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Level 6 • The -ng- Letter-Sound & the -ing Suffix

Decoding and spelling words with the cumulative letter-sounds introduced to-date and
with the consonant digraph -ng
Word parts: cumulative suffixes introduced to-date, the suffix -ing, and the suffix spelling
1-1-1 Doubling Pattern
Reading and spelling cumulative sight words and the level’s sight words (could, should,
would, put)

Level 7 • Basic Suffixes & the Consonant Doubling Suffix Spelling Pattern

Decoding and spelling base words with the cumulative letter-sounds introduced to-date
Word parts: cumulative suffixes and the suffix spelling patterns introduced to-date, and the
suffixes -es, -ed, -’s, -s’
Reading and spelling cumulative sight words and the level’s sight words (use, you, your,
youth, they, four)

Level 8 • -x and qu- Letter-Sound Associations

Decoding and spelling base words with the cumulative letter-sounds introduced to-date
and the graphemes -x and qu-
Word parts: cumulative suffixes and the suffix spelling patterns introduced to-date
Reading and spelling cumulative sight words and the level’s sight words (want, come, goes,
gone)

Level 9 • Consonant Blends

Decoding and spelling base words with the cumulative letter-sounds introduced to-date
and consonant blends (contrasting digraphs -ng and -ck to the consonant blend -nk)
Word parts: cumulative suffixes and the suffix spelling patterns introduced to-date
Reading and spelling cumulative sight words and the level’s sight words ( of, off, way,
always)

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Level 10 • Consonant Digraphs & Trigraphs, the Suffix Spelling Dropping Pattern

Decoding and spelling base words with the cumulative letter-sounds introduced to-date
and consonant digraphs -th, -sh, -ch, -wh-, -tch, -dge
Word parts: cumulative suffixes, the suffixes -ship and -ish, and the two suffix spelling
patterns: the Dropping Pattern and the 1-1-1 Doubling Pattern
Reading and spelling cumulative sight words and the level’s sight words (rich, much, such)

Level 11 • The Vowel Team Syllable Type

Decoding and spelling base words with cumulative letter-sounds introduced to-date, plus:
Vowel teams for long -a- (common: ay, ai; less common: ea, ei, ey)
Vowel teams for long -e- (common: ee, ea; less common: ei, ey, ie)
Vowel teams for long -o- (common : oa, ow; less common: oe)
Vowel teams for long -u- (common: ue, ew; less common: ou, ui, eu)
Vowel teams: oo, aw, au
Vowel teams: oi, oy & ow, ou
Vowel teams for short -e- (ea) and long -i- (ie, uy)
Word parts: cumulative suffixes and suffix spelling patterns introduced to-date and the
suffix -ful
Reading and spelling cumulative sight words and the level’s sight words (again, been,
though, through, thought)

Level 12 • Word Analysis

Decoding and spelling base words with cumulative letter-sounds introduced to-date
Word Parts
Cumulative suffixes,the suffixes -en, -ic, -ist, -ment, suffix spelling patterns introduced to
the Advanced Doubling Pattern
Prefixes: ob-, sub-, in-, im-, ir-, il-, con-, com-, un-, dis-, mis-, en-, em-, trans-
The word analysis procedure
Reading and spelling cumulative sight words

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Level 13 • The R-Controlled Syllable Type

Decoding and spelling base words with cumulative letter-sounds introduced to-date and
with r-controlled vowels spelled -or-, -oor, -ar-, -er-, -ir-, -ur-, -urr-
Word parts: cumulative prefixes, suffixes and suffix spelling patterns introduced to-date,
and the suffixes -er, -est, -or, -tor, -dom
Reading and spelling cumulative sight words and the level’s sight words ( together, other,
mother, brother, another)

Level 14 • The Silent -e Syllable Type

Decoding and spelling base words with cumulative letter-sounds introduced to-date and
with silent -e syllables
Word parts: cumulative prefixes, suffixes and suffix spelling patterns introduced to-date,
and the suffix non-, and the prefix -ate.
Reading and spelling cumulative sight words and the level’s sight words (give, here, there,
their, they're, word, world, work, sometime)

Level 15 • The Open Syllable Type

Decoding and spelling base words with cumulative letter-sounds introduced to-date and
with long vowels in open syllables
Word parts: cumulative prefixes, suffixes and suffix spelling patterns introduced to-date,
and the prefixes auto-, bi-, co-, de-, e-, over-, pro-, re-, tri-, uni-
Reading and spelling cumulative sight words and the level’s sight words (child, mild, find,
kind, pint, mind, old, post, most, both, toll, wind, postman, windup, unwind, rewind)

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Level 16 • The Consonant +le Syllable Type

Decoding and spelling base words with cumulative letter-sounds introduced to-date and
with consonant +le syllables
Word parts: cumulative prefixes, suffixes and suffix spelling patterns introduced to-date,
and suffixes -le and -cle
Reading and spelling cumulative sight words and the level’s sight word (people)

Level 17 • -y- as a Vowel

Decoding and spelling base words with cumulative letter-sounds introduced to-date and
with vowels spelled with -y-
Word parts:
Cumulative prefixes introduced to-date, and the prefixes hyper-, syn-, dys-
Cumulative suffixes, and the suffixes -y, -ly, -ory, -ity, -ty, -fy, -ify
The suffix spelling patterns introduced to-date, and the Changing Pattern
Reading and spelling cumulative sight words and the level’s sight words (pretty, only, very)

Level 18 • Soft -c- Letter-Sound Associations

Decoding and spelling base words with cumulative letter-sounds introduced to-date and
with soft -c- spelled -c-, sc-, -ce
Word parts
Cumulative prefixes introduced to-date
Cumulative suffixes introduced to-date and the suffix -acy
Cumulative suffix spelling patterns introduced to-date
Reading and spelling cumulative sight words

Level 19 • Final -e- after a consonant (-ce, -se, -sce,-ze, -ve)

Decoding and spelling base words with cumulative letter-sounds introduced to-date and
words with consonants spelled with a final -e-

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 Word parts
Cumulative prefixes introduced to-date
Cumulative suffixes introduced to-date and the suffixes -ive, -ance, -ence
Cumulative suffix spelling patterns introduced to-date and the prefixes en-, ex-, post-
Reading and spelling cumulative sight words

Level 20 • Soft -g- Letter-Sound Associations (-g-, -dge, -ge, -d-)

Decoding and spelling base words with cumulative letter-sounds introduced to-date and
with soft -g- spelled -g-, -dge, -ge, -d-
Word parts
Cumulative prefixes introduced to-date
Cumulative suffixes introduced to-date
Cumulative suffix spelling patterns introduced to-date
Reading and spelling cumulative sight words

Level 21 • Vowel Shifting Patterns

Decoding and spelling base words with cumulative letter-sounds introduced to-date and
vowel shifting patterns with -a-, -or- and -ar- after “w” and -a- before “l”.
Word parts
Cumulative prefixes introduced to-date
Cumulative suffixes introduced to-date
Cumulative suffix spelling patterns introduced to-date
Reading and spelling cumulative sight words

Level 22 • -gh- Patterns

Decoding and spelling base words with cumulative letter-sounds introduced to-date and
with -gh- vowel patterns -igh-, -eigh-, -ough-, -augh- and -gh- as a consonant
Word parts
Cumulative prefixes introduced to-date

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 Cumulative suffixes introduced to-date
Cumulative suffix spelling patterns introduced to-date
Reading and spelling cumulative sight words and this level’s sight words (enough, height,
straight, thorough; Review: though, through, thought)

Level 23 • Silent Consonants

Decoding and spelling base words with cumulative letter-sounds introduced to-date, and
with silent letter digraphs, and with syllabic consonants (e.g., “m” in rhythm & spasm)
Word parts
Cumulative prefixes introduced to-date
Cumulative suffixes introduced to-date and suffixes -ism and -al
Cumulative suffix spelling patterns introduced to-date
Reading and spelling cumulative sight words and this level’s sight words (write, right, wrong,
often)

Level 24 • Greek & Latin Spelling Patterns

Decoding and spelling base words with cumulative letter-sounds introduced to-date and with Latin
and Greek patterns (-ph-, -ch-, -g-, -ge-, -x-, -cq-, -que, -sce, -ti-, -ci-, -ssi-, -si-)
Word parts
Cumulative prefixes introduced to-date and prefixes ab-, abs-, ac-, ad-
Cumulative suffixes introduced to-date and suffixes -ion, -ous, -able, -ible
Cumulative suffix spelling patterns introduced to-date
Reading and spelling cumulative sight words

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Level 25 • Rhotic (Tense) r-Controlled Vowels

Decoding and spelling base words with cumulative letter-sounds introduced to-date and
with tense r-controlled vowels spelled -ure-, ore-, -ar-, -air-, -ear-, -eir-, -are-, -eer-, -eir,
-ir-, -irr-, -r-
Word parts
Cumulative prefixes introduced to-date
Cumulative suffixes introduced to-date and suffix -ure
Cumulative suffix spelling patterns introduced to-date
Reading and spelling cumulative sight words

Level 26 • Scientific Word Analysis

Word analysis project #1

Word analysis project #2
Word analysis project #3
Word analysis project #4

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