Teacher's Guide for Horizons Phonics and Reading 2. Horizons Phonics and Reading 2 emphasizes phonics concepts to words of two syllables. word types covered include compound words, words with affixes, and words with the schwa sound.Syllabication rules are taught and applied to sounding out new words.A variety of activities provide practice in phonemic awareness, phonics instruction, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, spelling and penmanship."