Virginia SOL 3.FFW.2.C

ELA3rd GradeFoundations for Writing

The Standard

Use phoneme/grapheme (sound/symbol) correspondences to encode (spell) grade-level high-frequency words with automaticity and accuracy.

Virginia Standards of Learning for English · Spelling

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students listen for each sound in commonly used words and write the letters or letter groups that represent those sounds. They spell these words quickly and correctly without copying or asking for help.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student accurately writes familiar words during dictation and independent writing. The student spells them quickly without copying, asking for help, or sounding out every word.
Common Misconceptions: Students may write one letter for a sound spelled with two letters, as in ship or rain. They may spell said as sed, confuse homophones, or put the correct letters in the wrong order.
How to Assess It: Dictate five recently taught common words, then one sentence using two of them. Give students two minutes and check accuracy without models or prompts.

Lesson moves

Build words such as because, people, and could with letter tiles, then cover each model and have students rebuild it from memory.
Ask students to circle the predictable spellings in said and explain which letter pattern must be remembered by heart.
Play word grid bingo: call a common word, students spell it on paper, then cover the matching word after checking.
Have students write a lunch request using five target words, such as please, would, like, some, and more.

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