Kentucky Reading and Writing RF.3.3.b

ELA3rd GradeReading Foundational Skills

The Standard

RF.3.3: Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding and encoding words.

Decode and encode multisyllabic words.

Kentucky Academic Standards for Reading and Writing (2025) · Phonics and Word Recognition

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students break longer words into parts they can read. They put those parts together to say the word, then use the same parts to spell it.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student reads “fantastic” without skipping the middle syllable. They spell “remember” from dictation and check that every syllable is there.
Common Misconceptions: Students may guess a word from its first few letters, reading “fantastic” as “fantasy.” They may leave out a syllable or write “baskit” for “basket.”
How to Assess It: Ask each student to read “fantastic” aloud. Then dictate “remember” and have them write it and mark its syllables.

Lesson moves

Give pairs letter tiles to build “basket” and “fantastic,” then have them rebuild each word from memory.
Ask students to write how they figured out “remember” and which letters helped them read each syllable.
Play a word-building game with cards labeled “fan,” “tas,” “tic,” “bas,” and “ket”; students build, read, and write each word.
Print a lunch menu with “banana,” “pineapple,” and “macaroni”; students read each item, cover it, then write a lunch order.

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