Virginia SOL 2.FFR.3.A
The Standard
Decode and encode words with short vowels to include blends, digraphs, and trigraphs in closed syllables (CVCC, CCVC, CVCC, CCVCC, and CCVCCC) and open syllables (CV, CCV).
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 read and spell one-syllable words such as ship, stop, blend, and catch by matching sounds to letter patterns. They also read and spell open-syllable words such as me, go, and she.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students can read an unfamiliar word such as clutch without guessing from the first letter. They can segment a spoken word and spell every sound with the correct blend, digraph, or trigraph.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may treat each letter in a digraph or trigraph as a separate sound. They may omit consonants in blends, spelling stop as sop. They may also use a short vowel in open syllables such as go or she.
How to Assess It
- Have students read stop, fish, catch, and she. Then dictate clap, bend, match, and go for them to spell.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Use letter tiles to build ship, clap, bend, and catch, then swap one tile or letter team to make a new word.
Sort me, go, she, cat, stop, and lunch into open and closed syllables, then write why each word belongs.
Play phonics bingo with teacher-called words containing blends, digraphs, trigraphs, and open syllables; students cover the matching printed word.
Have students scan classroom labels and a lunch menu for target words, then record and read five examples to a partner.
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Related Standards
- 1.FFR.3.B
Decode and encode words with long vowels, open syllables, (CV, CCV) and vowelconsonant-e (CVCE, CCVCE).
- 2.FFR.3.B
Decode and encode words with vowel teams and r-controlled vowels.
- 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)
- 1.FFR.3.A
Decode and encode words with short vowels to include blends with digraphs, closed syllables (CVC, CCVC, CVCC, CCVCC).
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