Kentucky Reading and Writing RF.K.3.d

ELAKindergartenReading Foundational Skills

The Standard

RF.K.3: Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding and encoding words.

Decode consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words.

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

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students say the sound for each letter in a three-letter word, then blend the sounds to read it. They read words like map, sit, and hop without using a picture to guess.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student can sound out an unfamiliar word like rug and blend it into rug. They can do the same with words that have different short vowels.
Common Misconceptions: Some students say letter names instead of sounds, or use a long vowel sound in a word like pin. Others guess from the first letter or leave off the final sound.
How to Assess It: Show each student map, sit, and hop on separate cards. Ask them to say each sound, then read each whole word.

Lesson moves

Give students letter tiles to build map, then swap m for t and blend tap aloud.
Show cat, replace c with b, and ask, "What changed in the word you read?"
Play word-card bingo with sit, hot, and rug; students sound out each word before covering its square.
Put labels such as cup, bag, and pen on classroom objects, then have students read each label and find its object.

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