South Dakota ELA 1.RF.2.f

ELA1st GradeReading Foundational Skills

The Standard

1.RF.2: Demonstrate proficiency of identifying, blending, and segmenting phonemes (sounds) in spoken words.

Categorize words with different phonemes in specified positions (e.g., initial, medial, final).

South Dakota English Language Arts Standards (2025)

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students listen to spoken words and notice the first, middle, or last sound. They group words by the sound in the position you name.
What Mastery Looks Like: Given pictures of a fan, fish, and pan, a student groups fan with fish by their first sound. When asked about the last sound, they group fan with pan and explain why.
Common Misconceptions: Students may listen to the first sound even when asked for the last. They may group words by spelling, such as phone and pig, rather than by sound. They may hear the two letters in sh as two separate sounds.
How to Assess It: Say cat, cup, and map. Ask students to circle the two pictures whose names have the same middle sound, then tell you that sound.

Lesson moves

Give students picture cards for cat, cap, cup, and sun; have them sort by middle sound and say each group.
Say coat, kite, and goat; ask partners, 'Which two start with the same sound? How do you know?'
Play Odd Sound Out: say bus, bat, and cup, then have students name the word with a different first sound.
Have students find a desk, door, and drawer in the classroom, then say the first sound shared by their names.

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