Every lesson is built from a handful of short, multisensory activities. In the family app they're woven into each mission; in Classroom a teacher can also assign any of them directly.
The core lesson arc
A warm-up that reviews previously learned letter sounds by feeding the right "coals" into the forge.
The explicit introduction of a new letter, sound, or rule, with its keyword anchor and a short "I do / we do / you do" beat.
Read a decodable sentence to fill a customer's order.
The reward: a forged artifact and, at region milestones, a new decodable storybook to read.
Practice activities
Match letters to their sounds to stoke the forge — a fast sound-symbol warm-up.
Hear a sound and choose the ore (letter/grapheme) that makes it.
Form the letter by tracing with finger or Apple Pencil — multisensory handwriting.
Forge CVC and pattern words from individual sound tiles.
Change one sound at a time (cat → cot → cog) to hear how sounds map to letters.
Sort words by their vowel sound.
Sort words by spelling pattern (e.g., which team spells the sound).
Decide if a word is real or a nonsense word — pure decoding, no memorization.
A gentle timed fluency read to build automaticity.
Segment a word into its sounds using Elkonin boxes.
Divide a longer word into syllables.
Snap prefix, root, and suffix tiles together — morphology as crafting.
Spelling quests (dictation: hear a word, write it, then use it in a sentence) and a recording booth where a teacher or parent can record letter sounds and words in their own voice.
