CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.1.3
The Standard
Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts · Reading Standards: Foundational Skills
What This Standard Means
Students need to use sound-spelling patterns to read unfamiliar words. They should recognize common consonant digraphs, long and short vowel patterns, final -e, common vowel teams, syllable patterns, and endings like -s, -ed, and -ing. They need to blend sounds, break words into parts, and try a word again when it does not make sense.
Mastery looks like a student reading many first-grade words accurately without guessing from the first letter or the picture. Students often get stuck with vowel sounds, silent e, similar digraphs like sh and ch, and endings that change how a word is read.
Ways to Teach It
- Build words with letter tiles, changing one part at a time, such as ship, shop, chop, chip, and have students read each word aloud.
- Ask students to explain, “How did you figure out this word?” after reading a tricky word from a decodable sentence.
- Show five words with the same pattern, then ask each student to read them and mark the vowel sound or digraph.
- Use names on classroom labels, lunch choices, or morning messages to spot phonics patterns students are learning that week.
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Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.4.3
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