Georgia K.F.CP.3.a
The Standard
Recognize that written words are made up of individual letters.
Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards · Foundations (F) · Concepts of Print
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify a printed word as a group of individual letters. They point to and count the letters within familiar words.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Given a word card such as "cat," a student identifies one word and touches c, a, and t as three separate letters. The student can repeat this with other short words.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may call each letter a word or count spaces and punctuation as letters. They may also think every word must contain several letters.
How to Assess It
- Show the word "map." Ask the student to point to the whole word, touch each letter, and tell how many letters it has.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give students magnetic letters to build their names, slide the letters apart, and count each letter aloud.
Show "dog" and ask, "Is this one letter or one word? What letters do you see?"
Play Letter or Word Sort with cards showing single letters and short words, then check by pointing to each letter.
Students inspect classroom labels, choose one word, and place a counter under each letter.
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Related Standards
- K.F.CP.3.b
Recognize that words are separated by spaces.
- K.F.P.2.e
Identify and distinguish between words that are spelled similarly by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ.
- K.F.PA.2.c
Know that sounds are put together to make words and that words have distinct meanings.
- K.F.CP.1.c
Distinguish between letters, words, digits, and graphics.
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