Georgia K.F.PA.4.d
The Standard
Delete syllables in spoken words.
Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards · Foundations (F) · Phonological Awareness
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students hear a word, remove one spoken beat, and say the part that remains. They work with beginning and ending syllables without using print.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student hears the beats in a word and removes the named beat. For example, the student says cake when asked to say cupcake without cup.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may remove one sound instead of a whole syllable. They may say the removed part rather than the part that remains.
How to Assess It
- Ask each student: “Say cupcake without cup. Say cowboy without boy. Say rainbow without bow.” Listen for cake, cow, and rain.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give students one block per syllable, then have them slide away the named block and say the part that remains.
Ask, “What is left when you say pancake without pan, and how did you know which beat to remove?”
Partners draw picture cards, name each picture, then follow a spinner that says to remove the first or last beat.
During snack, say lunchbox, cupcake, and popcorn, then ask students to remove a named syllable from each word.
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