Virginia SOL K.FFR.2.D
The Standard
Demonstrate ability to segment and blend one syllable words with two, three, and four phonemes (including words with consonant digraphs th, sh, ch, wh)
Virginia Standards of Learning for English · Phonological and Phonemic Awareness: The student will orally identify and produce various phonemes (individual sounds) within words to develop phonemic awareness in support of decoding (reading) and encoding (spelling)
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students say the separate sounds in short one-syllable words, then push those sounds together to say the whole word. They treat th, sh, ch, and wh as one sound.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can break map into /m/ /a/ /p/ and ship into /sh/ /i/ /p/. The student can hear and blend two, three, or four sounds without adding or dropping sounds.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may count letters instead of sounds, so they count sh or ch as two sounds. They may add an extra vowel sound, saying /muh/ instead of /m/. They may also leave out one sound in blends such as /k/ /l/ in clock.
How to Assess It
- Ask each child to push one counter per sound in at, ship, and whisk. Then ask the child to blend /ch/ /o/ /p/ and say chop.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give students counters and sound boxes, then say at, fish, chop, and whisk as they move one counter for each sound.
Ask students to decide whether ship or shop has different sounds, then segment both words and explain which sound changed.
Play Sound Steps: students draw a picture card, say each sound, blend the word, and move one space for every sound.
During cleanup, students choose objects named shoe, brush, or clock and segment each name before putting the object away.
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