Organizing Idea
PHONICS 1: Students recognize and analyze letters and sounds in words.
GR. 1 - ORGANIZING IDEA: PHONICS
Phonics: Foundational literacy is supported by understanding relationships between sounds in oral language and the letters that represent them.
Guiding Question: How can understanding relationships between sounds and letters (phonics) increase knowledge of words?
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Learning Outcome: Students recognize and analyze letters and sounds in words. |
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Knowledge |
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Skills & Procedures |
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The English alphabet consists of a set of 26 letters that represent sounds.
Letters can be uppercase or lowercase. |
Letters represent sounds in words. |
Recognize both uppercase and lowercase letters of the alphabet fluently.
Distinguish between letters that are consonants and letters that are vowels.
Make connections between letters and sounds in words. |
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Knowledge |
Understanding |
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There is a relationship between written letters (graphemes) and the sounds they represent (phonemes).
Two or more letters can represent a single sound.
Letters in words can be silent.
Some letters have variable pronunciations.
A vowel that is followed by <r> can make a new sound (e.g., ti-ger, turn, and bird). |
Letter combinations represent units of sound within a word. |
Associate sounds to letters and letter sequences.
Experiment with letters, sounds, and words to create new words.
Read one- to two-syllable words that include the 60 most frequent letter-sound correspondences.
Recognize and use long and short vowel sounds in words.
Read and write consonant sounds in the beginning, middle, and ending of words using the letters that represent them.
Read and write two consonant letters that represent one sound at the beginning, middle, and ending of words.
Identify short vowel sounds in words and identify the letters that represent them.
Identify long vowel sounds in words and identify the letters that represent them.
Recognize how the letter <r> can influence the vowel sound. |
