South Dakota ELA 1.RF.2.j

ELA1st GradeReading Foundational Skills

The Standard

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

Delete specified phonemes from words to create new words.

South Dakota English Language Arts Standards (2025)

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students listen to a word, remove a named sound, and say the new word. They practice with sounds at the start, middle, and end of words.
What Mastery Looks Like: They say top for stop without /s/ and sip for slip without /l/. They say pea for peach without /ch/, keeping the other sounds in order.
Common Misconceptions: Students may drop both /s/ and /l/ from slip when asked to remove only /l/. They may treat the two letters in ch as two sounds instead of one.
How to Assess It: Say, “What is slip without /l/?” Then ask, “What is peach without /ch/?” Listen for sip and pea.

Lesson moves

Have students push four counters for the sounds in slip, remove the /l/ counter, and say sip.
Ask partners, “What is smile without /s/? Which sounds stayed in the same order?”
Play a sound-drop round: say stop, name /s/ as the sound to drop, and have students write top on mini whiteboards.
Show a lunch menu with peach and pea, say peach without /ch/, and have students point to the food they hear.

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