CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.1.3c

ELA1st GradePhonics and Word Recognition

The Standard

Know final -e and common vowel team conventions for representing long vowel sounds.

Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students read words with silent e and common vowel pairs, such as “cake,” “bike,” “rain,” and “seed.” They use the spelling pattern to identify the long vowel sound.
What Mastery Looks Like: Students accurately read familiar and unfamiliar words such as “hope,” “team,” and “rain.” They can point to the spelling pattern that helped them choose the vowel sound.
Common Misconceptions: Students may read the first vowel as short in words such as “cake” or pronounce the final e. They may separate vowel pairs, or assume every two-vowel pattern makes the same sound.
How to Assess It: Give students six words: cake, bike, home, rain, seed, and boat. Ask them to read each word aloud and underline the letters that signal the long vowel sound.

Lesson moves

Use letter tiles to change cap to cape, kit to kite, and hop to hope, then read each pair aloud.
Ask students to explain in writing how the vowel sound changes between cub and cube or tap and tape.
Play long-vowel bingo using words with final e and vowel pairs such as ai, ee, oa, and ea.
Have students find long-vowel words on classroom signs or food packages, then copy and sort them by spelling pattern.

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