CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.1.3c
The Standard
Know final -e and common vowel team conventions for representing long vowel sounds.
Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts
What This Standard Means
Students need to read and spell words where a long vowel sound is shown by a silent final e, like make, bike, and home, or by common vowel teams, like rain, seed, boat, and play. They should notice the pattern, say the vowel sound, and use it to read the whole word.
Mastery looks like reading new words with these patterns without guessing from the first letter or picture. Students often mix short and long vowels, forget that final e changes the vowel sound, or treat vowel teams as two separate sounds instead of one sound.
Ways to Teach It
- Build words with letter tiles, changing cap to cape, kit to kite, and hop to hope, then read each word aloud.
- Ask students to explain in writing how the vowel sound changes from mad to made or not to note.
- Show five words, such as rain, cake, seed, hop, and boat, and have students circle the long vowel words.
- Read a simple lunch menu or weather chart and hunt for long vowel words like cake, meat, rain, and snow.
Plan a Lesson for CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.1.3c
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Related Standards
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.1.2a
Distinguish long from short vowel sounds in spoken single-syllable words.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.3b
Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.2.3a
Distinguish long and short vowels when reading regularly spelled one-syllable words.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.2.3b
Know spelling-sound correspondences for additional common vowel teams.