South Dakota ELA 1.RF.3.g

ELA1st GradeReading Foundational Skills

The Standard

1.RF.3: Decode and encode using grade-level phonics and word analysis skills.

Decode two-syllable words by breaking them into syllables and applying phonics patterns in open and closed syllables.

South Dakota English Language Arts Standards (2025)

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students split two-syllable words into parts they can read. In words like robot, they read ro with a long vowel and bot with a short vowel, then put the parts together.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student marks robot as ro/bot and reads it smoothly. They can explain that ro ends in a vowel, while bot ends in a consonant.
Common Misconceptions: Students may split robot as rob/ot and read both vowels as short. Some call ro closed because the whole word ends in t, rather than checking where that syllable ends.
How to Assess It: Write robot and picnic on the board. Ask students to mark the syllable breaks, label each syllable open or closed, and read both words aloud.

Lesson moves

Build robot with letter tiles, slide the tiles apart after ro, then read ro and bot before blending.
Ask students to write why the first o in robot says its name but the second o does not.
Play a card sort with robot, pilot, sunset, and picnic, marking syllable breaks before sorting open and closed syllables.
Give students a sample café menu with donut and muffin, then have them mark the syllables and read both items aloud.

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