Kentucky Reading and Writing RF.3.2

ELA3rd GradeReading Foundational Skills

The Standard

No Phonological Awareness Standard for grade 3.

Kentucky Academic Standards for Reading and Writing (2025) · Phonological Awareness

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: There is no separate grade 3 phonological awareness target to teach or grade here. Use oral sound work when a student needs help with word reading.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student receiving review can blend and change sounds in spoken words. For example, they can change the /m/ in mat to /s/ and say sat without seeing the letters.
Common Misconceptions: Students may give letter names instead of sounds, or count syllables instead of individual sounds. Some count sh as two sounds because it has two letters.
How to Assess It: Ask orally, “Say slip. Now say it without /s/.” Listen for lip, and use the result to plan support, not as a grade for this entry.

Lesson moves

Say ship and have students push one counter for each sound they hear.
Ask pairs, “How does changing the first sound in map to /t/ change the word?” Have them say both words aloud.
Play an oral sound-swap game: say pan, replace /p/ with /f/, and have students answer fan.
On the playground, say slide and side aloud, then ask which sound disappears from slide.

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