South Dakota ELA K.RF.3.d

ELAKindergartenReading Foundational Skills

The Standard

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

Use grapheme-phoneme knowledge to decode and encode CVC and open syllable one-syllable words.

South Dakota English Language Arts Standards (2025)

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students sound out and read short words like map and go. They also listen to a word, say its sounds, and write the letters in order.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student reads map with a short a and go with a long o. When given the spoken words sit and me, they write both without a word to copy.
Common Misconceptions: Students may leave off the last sound in a word like map and write ma. They may read the o in go with the short sound they hear in got.
How to Assess It: Show students map and no, and ask them to read both aloud. Then say sit and go, and ask them to write each word.

Lesson moves

Give students letter tiles to build map and go, say each sound, slide a finger under each word, and write both words.
Write got and go on the board; ask, “How does the o sound change when the t is gone?”
Give pairs word cards for cat, sit, mop, me, go, and no; have them read each card and sort by its final letter.
Show a green traffic light picture labeled go; students read the word, then write go on a paper traffic signal.

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