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ELA3rd Gradedemonstrate and apply phonetic knowledge by:

The Standard

decoding multisyllabic words with multiple sound-spelling patterns such as eigh, ough, and en

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for English Language Arts and Reading · The student develops word structure knowledge through phonological awareness, print concepts, phonics, and morphology to communicate, decode, and spell.

Teacher's field guide

What This Standard Means

What Students Need to Do

Students break longer words into syllables and recognize letter groups that can represent different sounds. They try a sound, blend the parts, and check whether the result is a known word.

What Mastery Looks Like

Students accurately read words such as neighborly, doughnut, roughness, and golden. They divide each word into useful parts and adjust the vowel sound when one attempt does not make a known word.

Common Misconceptions

Students may expect ough to make the same sound in every word. They may read eigh one letter at a time or pronounce the final en as a stressed syllable.

How to Assess It

Give students weightless, doughnut, roughness, and golden. Ask them to mark syllable breaks, underline the target spelling, and read each word aloud.

Lesson moves

Ways to Teach It

  1. Give students word cards to cut into syllables, then rebuild and read words such as neighborly, roughness, doughnut, and golden.

  2. Ask students to explain why ough sounds different in doughnut, roughness, and throughout, using each word in a sentence.

  3. Play a card sort where teams group multisyllabic words by the sounds made by eigh, ough, or final en.

  4. Have students find words such as neighborhood, doughnut, and wooden on menus, maps, packages, or signs, then mark their syllables.

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