Virginia SOL 1.FFR.3.A
The Standard
Decode and encode words with short vowels to include blends with digraphs, closed syllables (CVC, CCVC, CVCC, CCVCC).
Virginia Standards of Learning for English · Phonics and Word Analysis: The student will apply phonetic principles to read and spell words
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students use letter sounds to read and spell one-syllable words with short vowels. They blend all sounds in words such as flag, chop, nest, and chest.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students read unfamiliar short vowel words without dropping sounds from blends or digraphs. They spell each sound in order and choose the correct short vowel.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may omit a sound in blends, spelling stop as sop or hand as had. They may treat a digraph as two sounds or confuse short vowel sounds.
How to Assess It
- Give students the words map, flag, ship, nest, and chest to read. Then dictate rug, clap, chop, milk, and blend for them to spell.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Use letter tiles to build map, then change letters to make clap, clip, chip, and chin while students read each new word.
Ask students to explain why the letters sh in ship work differently from the letters st in stop.
Play word sort relay with cards labeled CVC, CCVC, CVCC, and CCVCC, using words such as cat, frog, hand, and chest.
Have students find short vowel words on classroom labels, copy five, and underline each vowel.
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Decode and encode words with long vowels, open syllables, (CV, CCV) and vowelconsonant-e (CVCE, CCVCE).
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Decode and encode words with vowel teams and r-controlled vowels.
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Decode and encode words with short vowels to include blends, digraphs, and trigraphs in closed syllables (CVCC, CCVC, CVCC, CCVCC, and CCVCCC) and open syllable...
- K.FFR.3.G
Decode (read) and encode (spell) words with short vowels, including words beginning or ending in a digraph (e.g., ch, sh, th, wh)
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