South Dakota ELA 2.RF.3.d

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 words with vowel-r patterns.

South Dakota English Language Arts Standards (2025)

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students read and spell words with a vowel followed by r, such as cart, fork, her, bird, and turn. They notice the vowel-r pair instead of sounding out the vowel alone.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student reads unfamiliar words like shirt and storm by spotting the vowel-r pair. They spell dictated words like star, fern, and curl, then reread them to check.
Common Misconceptions: Students may read bird as bid because they skip the r. They may write berd for bird or tern for turn because er, ir, and ur sound alike.
How to Assess It: Ask students to read park, horn, her, bird, and turn aloud. Then dictate star, fork, fern, shirt, and curl for them to write.

Lesson moves

Give pairs letter tiles to build farm, fork, fern, bird, and burn, then point to each vowel-r pair as they read.
Ask, “Why does bird not sound like bid?” Have partners point to the letters that change the sound.
Play a word-sort relay with cards labeled star, horn, fern, shirt, and curl and headers labeled ar, or, er, ir, and ur.
Give students a grocery list with corn, pork, and carrots; have them read it aloud and add burger to the list.

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