Standard 1: Learning and Applying Foundational Reading Skills

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Number: ELA.1.F.1
Title: Learning and Applying Foundational Reading Skills
Type: Standard
Subject: English Language Arts (B.E.S.T.)
Grade: 1
Strand: Foundational Skills

Related Benchmarks

This cluster includes the following benchmarks.

Related Access Points

This cluster includes the following access points.

Access Points

ELA.1.F.1.AP.1
Locate the title, table of contents, names of author(s) and illustrator(s), and glossary of books with a model.
ELA.1.F.1.AP.2a
Segment spoken words into initial, medial and final phonemes, including words with digraphs, blends and trigraphs.
ELA.1.F.1.AP.2b
Blend initial, medial and final phonemes together to identify or produce a single-syllable word that includes digraphs, blends or trigraphs.
ELA.1.F.1.AP.2c
Blend single-syllable spoken words with at least four phonemes.
ELA.1.F.1.AP.2d
Segment single-syllable spoken words with at least four phonemes.
ELA.1.F.1.AP.2e
Segment and blend phonemes in familiar multi-syllable spoken words.
ELA.1.F.1.AP.3a
Decode words using knowledge of spelling-sound correspondences for common consonant digraphs, trigraphs and blends.
ELA.1.F.1.AP.3b
Decode simple words with r-controlled vowels.
ELA.1.F.1.AP.3c
Decode and encode regularly spelled one-syllable words.
ELA.1.F.1.AP.3d
Decode words with inflectional endings.
ELA.1.F.1.AP.3e
Decode two-syllable words with regular patterns by breaking the words into syllables.
ELA.1.F.1.AP.3f
Decode words that use final -e and vowel teams to make long-vowel sound.
ELA.1.F.1.AP.4a
Recognize and read sight words.

Related Resources

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Lesson Plans

Colorful Rhymes:

The students will participate in reading the rhyming story The Crayon Box That Talked and help to generate words that rhyme with colors. Then, students will be able to demonstrate their understanding of rhyming words by completing a sorting activity.

Type: Lesson Plan

Generating Grammar Gurus:

In this lesson students will participate in reading the books,  A Mink, a Fink, A Skating Rink, To Root, to Toot, to Parachute, and Hairy, Scary, Ordinary and complete a variety of related activities that allow them to learn about and practice their knowledge of nouns, verbs, and adjectives. Students will contribute to a class generated grammar chart and complete a grammar sort. Students will also publish their own sentence which will include a noun, verb, and adjective, as well as an illustration to provide detail.

Type: Lesson Plan

Original Student Tutorials

Cam and Cal’s Construction Company: Adding -s to vowel –y nouns and verbs, Part 4:

Work with Cam and Cal at their construction company building and decoding vowel -y nouns and verbs with the inflectional endings of -s, in this interactive tutorial.

This is part 4 in a four-part series. Click below to explore other tutorials in this series.

Type: Original Student Tutorial

Cam and Cal’s Construction Company: Adding -es to Consonant –y words Part 3:

Help Cam and Cal build words with the inflectional ending of -es to nouns and verbs that end in consonant -y, in this interactive tutorial.

This is part 3 in a four-part series. Click below to open the other tutorials in this series.

Type: Original Student Tutorial

Cam and Cal’s Construction Company: Adding –s and –es to Verbs Part 2:

Help Cam and Cal learn about adding the inflectional endings of -s and -es at their construction site with this interactve tutorial.

This is part 2 in a four-part series. Click below to open the other tutorials in this series.

Type: Original Student Tutorial

Cam and Cal’s Construction Company: Building Plural Nouns with -s and -es: Part 1:

Come along with Cam and Cal as they build and decode words with the endings of "s" and "es" to nouns in this interactive tutorial.

This is part 1 in a four-part series. Click below to explore other tutorials in this series.

Type: Original Student Tutorial

Purposeful Parts: Exploring the Parts of a Book, Part 2:

Explore the parts of a book in this interactive tutorial. Join Li as she learns to locate and use the text features on the title page, table of contents, and glossary in informational books.

This is part 2 of a 2-part series. Click HERE to open Part 1.

Type: Original Student Tutorial

Purposeful Parts: Exploring the Parts of a Book, Part 1:

Explore the parts of a book in this interactive tutorial. Join Li as she learns to locate and use the text features on the title page and table of contents in informational books.

This is part 1 of a 2-part series. Click HERE to open Part 2.

Type: Original Student Tutorial

Student Center Activities

Phonemic Awareness: Sound Changes:

In this activity, students will substitute specific sounds in words to create new words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonemic Awareness: Word Change:

In this activity, students will delete the second phoneme in an initial blend and select the picture that represents the new word.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonemic Awareness: Phoneme Swap:

In this activity, students will decide which phoneme has been changed by comparing two pictures.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonemic Awareness: Phoneme Position Sort:

In this activity, students will sort pictures based on the location (initial, medial, final) of phoneme substitution.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonemic Awareness: Make It, Find It, Keep It:

In this activity, students will delete initial phonemes in words and select the picture that represents the new word. In an extension activity, students can segment and count the phonemes in each word and sort by the number of phonemes.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonemic Awareness: Final Phoneme Pie:

In this activity, students will delete final phonemes in words and select the picture that represents the new word.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonemic Awareness: What's Left?:

In this activity, students will delete initial phonemes in words and select the picture that represents the new word.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonemic Awareness: Break and Make:

In this activity, students will segment and blend phonemes to make words by playing a picture card game.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonemic Awareness: Phoneme Split and Say:

In this activity, students will segment and blend phonemes in words using Elkonin boxes.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonemic Awareness: Phoneme Challenge:

In this activity, students will segment phonemes in words by playing a counting game.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonemic Awareness: The Phoneme Game:

In this activity, students will segment and count phonemes in words while playing a board game.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonemic Awareness: Phoneme Counting Sort:

In this activity, students will segment and count phonemes in words and sort by number.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonemic Awareness: What's My Word?:

In this activity, students will blend phonemes in words and select the corresponding picture.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonemic Awareness: Phoneme Quest:

In this activity, students will isolate initial, medial, and final phonemes by comparing pictures.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonemic Awareness: Final Phoneme Find:

In this activity, students will isolate final phonemes by listening to words and choosing pictures with the same ending sound.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonemic Awareness: Bag-of-Sounds:

In this activity, students will identify initial phonemes in words represented by objects. As an extension, students may also identify the medial and final phonemes.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonemic Awareness: Vowel Picture Sort:

In this activity, students will sort pictures based on vowel sounds (long and short).

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonemic Awareness: Medial Match:

In this activity, students will match medial phonemes by playing a card game.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonemic Awareness: Medial Phoneme Dominoes:

In this activity, students will match medial phonemes by playing dominoes.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonemic Awareness: Final Phomeme Pyramid:

In this activity, students will match final phonemes by playing a board game.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonemic Awareness: Final Phoneme Memory:

In this activity, students will match final phonemes by playing a memory game.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonemic Awareness: Initial Phoneme Picture Sort:

In this activity, students will match initial phonemes by sorting pictures.

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: Computer-Based Reading:

In this activity, students will interact with computer-based fluency passages (teacher-selected).

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: Readers' Theater:

In this activity, students will rehearse and read text using a Readers' Theater format.

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: Express It!:

In this activity, students will read sentences on sentence strips with expression.

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: Choral Reading:

In this activity, students will read text in unison.

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: Repeated Timed Readings:

In this activity, students will time repeated readings of teacher-selected text and record words correct per minute.

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: Partner Reading:

In this activity, students will practice reading fluently by reading teacher-selected text with a partner.

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: Rereading Decodable Text:

In this activity, students will practice rereading decodable text with a partner.

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: Speedy Phrases:

In this activity, students will read phrases containing high frequency words in a timed activity.

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: Word Climb:

In this activity, students will quickly read and match high frequency words on a game board.

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: I Read, You Point:

In this activity, students will quickly identify words on word cards as they are read aloud by a partner.

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: Fast Words:

In this activity, students will quickly read high frequency words on a practice sheet while being timed.

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: Speedy Rime Words:

In this activity, students will quickly read words with the same rime in a timed activity.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Compound Word Puzzles:

In this activity, students will form compound words by putting puzzle pieces together.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Word Syllable Game:

In this activity, students will count the number of syllables in words while playing a board game.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Syllable Closed Sort:

In this activity, students will sort words by the number of syllables.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Piece It Together:

In this activity, students will make words from syllable puzzle pieces.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Picture It In Syllables:

In this activity, students will combine syllables to form words while playing a matching game.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Say and Write Letters:

In this activity, students will orally segment words represented by picture cards and write the corresponding letters on spaces in Elkonin boxes.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Flip Manipulating Books:

In this activity, students will blend sounds to make words while manipulating cards in a binder.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Vowel Slide:

In this activity, students will blend sounds to make words while manipulating a vowel slide.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Silent "e" Changes:

In this activity, students will read words with and without the silent "e" pattern.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Canned Sort:

In this activity, students will read and sort words based on long and short vowel sounds.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Word Bowling:

In this activity, students will read high frequency words while playing a bowling game.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Word Memory Game:

In this activity, students will read high frequency words while playing a memory game.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Word Baseball:

In this activity, students will read high frequency words while playing a baseball game.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Word Fishing:

In this activity, students will read high frequency words while playing a "fishing" game.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Word Checkers:

In this activity, students will read high frequency words while they play a checkers game.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Sandpaper Words:

In this activity, students will read high frequency words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Make-A-Word:

In this activity, students will segment names of pictures into phonemes and use letters to make each word.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Three-In-One:

In this activity, students will use consonant and vowel cards to make words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Letter Cube Blending:

In this activity, students will make words using consonant and vowel cubes.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Word Steps:

In this activity, students will make words by manipulating one letter at a time.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Vowel Stars:

In this activity, the student will blend sounds of letters to make words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Word Maker Game:

In this activity, students will make words using onset and rime cards.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Word Roll-A-Rama:

In this activity, students will make words using onset and rime cubes.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Change-A-Word:

In this activity, students will make words by matching and blending onsets and rimes.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Word Swat:

In this activity, students will make words by matching and blending onsets and rimes.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Rime Closed Sort:

In this activity, students will sort words by rimes.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Say It Now:

In this activity, students will make words by selecting various letters (onsets) to complete provided rimes.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Picture the Word:

In this activity, students select onsets (initial sounds) to complete words using pictures as clues.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Onset and Rime Slide:

In this activity, students will make words using a variety of onsets (including blends and digraphs) and sliding rime strips (including short, long, and variable vowels). They will also determine if the new word is real or nonsense.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Name Changes:

In this activity, the student will manipulate phonemes in words by substituting initial, medial, or final sounds to create a new word.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Drop and Say:

In this activity, the student will manipulate phonemes in words by deleting the beginning or ending sound to create a new word.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Picture Slide:

In this activity, the student will segment and blend phonemes in words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Treasure Chest:

In this activity, the student will segment and blend phonemes in words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Feud:

In this activity, the student will segment phonemes in words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Sound Spin:

In this activity, the student will segment phonemes in words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: The Sound Game:

In this activity, the student will segment phonemes in words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Hopscotch:

In this activity, the student will segment phonemes in words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Closed Sort:

In this activity, the student will segment phonemes in words and sort the words (picture cards) based on the number of phonemes. As an extension activity, the student can also sort picture cards based on the number of syllables in the word.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Photos:

In this activity, the student will segment phonemes in words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Say and Slide Phonemes:

In this activity, the student will segment phonemes in words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Sound Quest:

In this activity, the student will isolate initial, final, and medial phonemes in words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Move and Tell:

In this activity, the student will isolate medial phonemes in words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: The Last Sound Is...:

In this activity, students will use final sound clues to identify objects.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: See It – Sound It:

In this activity, the student will identify initial phonemes in words. As an extension activity, students can also identify the final sound in words and count the syllables in each word.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Sound Pictures and Picture Puzzles:

In this activity, the student will match medial phonemes in words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Sound Bags:

In this activity, students will match medial phonemes in words. As an extension, students can also match objects with the same initial or final sounds. 

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Sound Pie:

In this activity, the student will match final phonemes in words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Final Sound Match-Up:

In this activity, the student will match final phonemes in words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Sound It–Bag It:

In this activity, the student will match initial phonemes in words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Dominoes:

In this activity, the student will match initial phonemes in words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Go Fish:

In this activity, the student will match initial phonemes in words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Pack-A-Backpack:

In this activity, the student will match initial phonemes in words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Sound Train:

In this activity, the student will match initial phonemes in words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Sound Snacker - Sound Smacker:

In this activity, the student will match initial phonemes in words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Guessing Game:

In this activity, the student will manipulate onsets and rimes in words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Sound Detective:

In this activity, the student will segment and blend onsets and rimes in words. The student will also match rimes by identifying rhyming words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Rime House:

In this activity, students will segment and blend onsets and rimes in words. They will also match words with the same rime (rhyming words).

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Quick Pick:

In this activity, the student will segment and blend onsets and rimes in words. As an extension, the student will produce a rhyming word to match the picture.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Syllable Say:

In this activity, the student will segment and blend syllables in words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Syllable Graph:

In this activity, the student will segment syllables in words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: One Card Out:

In this activity, the student will match initial phonemes in words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Student Resources

Vetted resources students can use to learn the concepts and skills in this topic.

Original Student Tutorials

Cam and Cal’s Construction Company: Adding -s to vowel –y nouns and verbs, Part 4:

Work with Cam and Cal at their construction company building and decoding vowel -y nouns and verbs with the inflectional endings of -s, in this interactive tutorial.

This is part 4 in a four-part series. Click below to explore other tutorials in this series.

Type: Original Student Tutorial

Cam and Cal’s Construction Company: Adding -es to Consonant –y words Part 3:

Help Cam and Cal build words with the inflectional ending of -es to nouns and verbs that end in consonant -y, in this interactive tutorial.

This is part 3 in a four-part series. Click below to open the other tutorials in this series.

Type: Original Student Tutorial

Cam and Cal’s Construction Company: Adding –s and –es to Verbs Part 2:

Help Cam and Cal learn about adding the inflectional endings of -s and -es at their construction site with this interactve tutorial.

This is part 2 in a four-part series. Click below to open the other tutorials in this series.

Type: Original Student Tutorial

Cam and Cal’s Construction Company: Building Plural Nouns with -s and -es: Part 1:

Come along with Cam and Cal as they build and decode words with the endings of "s" and "es" to nouns in this interactive tutorial.

This is part 1 in a four-part series. Click below to explore other tutorials in this series.

Type: Original Student Tutorial

Purposeful Parts: Exploring the Parts of a Book, Part 2:

Explore the parts of a book in this interactive tutorial. Join Li as she learns to locate and use the text features on the title page, table of contents, and glossary in informational books.

This is part 2 of a 2-part series. Click HERE to open Part 1.

Type: Original Student Tutorial

Purposeful Parts: Exploring the Parts of a Book, Part 1:

Explore the parts of a book in this interactive tutorial. Join Li as she learns to locate and use the text features on the title page and table of contents in informational books.

This is part 1 of a 2-part series. Click HERE to open Part 2.

Type: Original Student Tutorial

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