South Dakota ELA 2.RF.3.b

ELA2nd GradeReading Foundational Skills

The Standard

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

Decode and encode sound-spelling correspondences for common vowel teams including diphthongs.

South Dakota English Language Arts Standards (2025)

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students read words with common vowel teams, including sounds like /oi/ in coin and /ou/ in cloud. They also choose the right vowel teams when spelling words they hear.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student reads rain, boat, coin, and toy without sounding out each vowel separately. When spelling a word like boy, the student writes oy and can explain why it fits at the end.
Common Misconceptions: Students may read the vowels in coin as two separate sounds. They may write toi for toy or use ai at the end of play.
How to Assess It: Show students rain, boat, coin, and toy to read aloud. Then dictate train, goat, soil, and boy for them to write.

Lesson moves

Give students letter tiles to build rain, play, coin, and toy, then have them underline the vowel team in each word.
Ask partners, “Why does coin use oi but toy uses oy?” Have each student write a sentence using both words.
Play vowel-team bingo: give students ai, ay, oa, oi, oy, and ou cards, then call rain, day, boat, coin, boy, and cloud.
Set out labels for oats, oil, and soap; have students read each label and copy the words onto a shopping list.

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