The levels in planet #3 focus on final consonant pairs, blends, and digraphs. These levels assume that a student has already completed the levels on short vowels and initial consonant pairs and blends from the first two planets, so even though words with beginning and ending blends are explicitly the focus of level 3-12, those types of words (e.g. bring, thing, shark, plant) will be mixed in throughout the rest of the levels in planet #3 as well.

For level 3-1, it's important for students to understand that one-syllable words that end with a short vowel sound followed by a -k sound typically end with -ck.

Level 3-3 goes back to the ch, sh, and th digraphs that were used in level 2-1. For that reason, some teachers like to have their students work on those two levels in successive days.

As usual, the words used in teaching these patterns are high-frequency words, so your students are learning key spelling patterns while mastering critically important words in the English language.