Maryland ELA RF.K.3.g

ELAKindergartenReading Foundational Skills

The Standard

RF.K.3: Know and apply phonics and word analysis skills in decoding and encoding words. Demonstrate knowledge of the alphabetic principle. Form/print all upper and lowercase letters correctly, using a common path of movement. Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels. Know and apply phonics skills in order to decode and encode one-syllable words. Read common high-frequency words by sight. Decode and encode words that are minimal pairs. Decode words with the most common inflectional suffixes.

Decode words with the most common inflectional suffixes.

Maryland College and Career Ready Standards for English Language Arts (2025)

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students read a familiar word with -s, -ed, or -ing added. They say the whole word, including the ending.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student reads jump, jumps, jumped, and jumping without dropping or guessing the endings. They read jumped with a /t/ sound at the end.
Common Misconceptions: Students may read jumping as jump because they skip the ending. They may sound out jumped as “jump-ed” instead of saying “jumpt.”
How to Assess It: Show each child jumps, jumped, and jumping on a slip of paper. Ask them to read each word aloud and circle its ending.

Lesson moves

Give pairs letter tiles to build jump, then add -s, -ed, and -ing, reading each new word aloud.
Write jump, jumps, and jumped on the board and ask, “What changes in the word you say when the ending changes?”
Play a card flip game: match look and play cards with -s, -ed, or -ing cards, then read each word aloud.
Put “Sam helps” and “Sam helped” on a class job chart, then have partners read which job update happened today.

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