Virginia SOL K.FFR.1.B

ELAKindergartenFoundations for Reading

The Standard

Demonstrate knowledge of a sentence, word, and letter

Virginia Standards of Learning for English · Print Concepts: The student will apply knowledge of how print is organized and read

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students identify a complete sentence in print, then find individual words and letters within it. They use spaces and end marks to tell the parts apart.
What Mastery Looks Like: Given a short printed sentence, a student can point to the whole sentence, one word, and one letter. The student explains that letters form words and words form sentences.
Common Misconceptions: Some students call a whole word a letter or count each letter as a word. They may treat any line of print as a sentence and overlook spaces between words.
How to Assess It: Display “The dog runs.” Ask students to circle the whole sentence, box one word, and underline one letter.

Lesson moves

Give students a sentence strip and scissors; have them cut apart the words, then circle each letter in one word.
Show a short sentence and ask students to explain how a sentence, a word, and a letter differ.
Play Print Detective: call out sentence, word, or letter, and students point to an example on a shared page.
Examine a cereal box and have students circle one sentence, box one word, and underline one letter.

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