Virginia SOL K.FFR.2

K.FFR.2 is a Standards of Learning standard. These are the knowledge and skills expectations under it.

• K.FFR.2.A

  Demonstrate ability to segment spoken words in sentences and syllables in words

• K.FFR.2.B

  Blend and segment one syllable words by onset and rime.

• K.FFR.2.C

  Isolate the initial, medial, and final sounds in three phoneme (individual sound) words (excluding words ending with /l/, /r/, or /x/)

• K.FFR.2.D

  Demonstrate ability to segment and blend one syllable words with two, three, and four phonemes (including words with consonant digraphs th, sh, ch, wh)

01

What Students Need to Do

Students count the words in a spoken sentence and clap the syllables in a word. They split one-syllable words into the first sound and the rest, then blend those parts. They identify first, middle, and last sounds, then blend and separate words with two to four sounds.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

Given a sentence, the student marks each spoken word and correctly counts syllables in familiar words. The student hears /m/ and /ap/ in map, identifies each sound in fish, and blends /s/ /t/ /o/ /p/ into stop.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may count letters instead of sounds, so they say ship has four sounds instead of three. They may treat a syllable as one sound or confuse the first sound with the letter name. Some can separate sounds slowly but cannot blend them back into a word.

04

How to Assess It

Say, “Dogs can run.” Have the student place one counter per word, clap the syllables in rabbit, and split map into /m/ and /ap/. Then ask the student to segment ship and blend /s/ /t/ /o/ /p/.

1. 01

   Give students sound boxes and counters to map each sound in fish, map, stop, and chin, treating each digraph as one sound.

2. 02

   Ask partners, “How are map and mop alike and different?” and have them name the first, middle, and last sounds.

3. 03

   Play Robot Talk by saying /sh/ /o/ /p/ for students to blend, then saying a word for them to segment.

4. 04

   Take a classroom sound hunt, naming objects and sorting them by first sound, final sound, or number of syllables.

• 2.FFR.3

  Phonics and Word Analysis: The student will apply phonetic principles to read and spell words. 

• 2.FFR.2

  The 2nd Grade version of this standard.

• 1.FFR.2

  Phonological and Phonemic Awareness: The student will orally identify and produce various phonemes (individual sounds) within words to develop phonemic awarenes...

• 1.FFR.3

  Phonics and Word Analysis: The student will apply phonetic principles to read and spell words