LAFS.K.RF.2.2Archived Standard

Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).
  1. Recognize and produce rhyming words.
  2. Count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words.
  3. Blend and segment onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken words.
  4. Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words. (This does not include CVCs ending with /l/, /r/, or /x/.)
  5. Add or substitute individual sounds (phonemes) in simple, one-syllable words to make new words.
General Information
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Grade: K
Strand: Reading Standards: Foundational Skills (K-5)
Idea: Level 1: Recall
Date Adopted or Revised: 12/10
Content Complexity Rating: Level 1: Recall - More Information
Date of Last Rating: 02/14
Status: State Board Approved - Archived

Related Courses

This benchmark is part of these courses.
5010010: English for Speakers of Other Languages-Elementary (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2022 (course terminated))
5010020: Basic Skills in Reading-K-2 (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2021, 2021 and beyond (current))
5010041: Language Arts - Kindergarten (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2021, 2021 and beyond (current))
7710011: Access Language Arts - Kindergarten (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2018, 2018 - 2022, 2022 and beyond (current))

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Lesson Plans

Be a Star Writer!:

Students will begin by discussing the difference between letters, words, and sentences followed by a reading of The Alphabet Tree by Leo Lionni. After partaking in a fun sentence strip activity, students will be asked to practice their star writing skills by writing a sentence about a time that they were happy.

Type: Lesson Plan

Do You Like Green Eggs and Ham?:

In this 5-day lesson, students will engage in a variety of activities using the beloved Dr. Seuss books, Green Eggs and Ham and Wacky Wednesday. Students will explain the roles of the author and illustrator of a story. They will identify rhyming words in the stories and produce additional words that rhyme. Students will answer text-dependent questions to complete a story map and sequencing graphic organizer about each story. Using the graphic organizers, students will retell the stories. Finally, students will choose their favorite Dr. Seuss book and write an opinion statement telling why the book is their favorite.

Type: Lesson Plan

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.

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Segmenting and Blending Words:

This activity introduces the concept of segmentation and blending words.

Type: Lesson Plan

Identify and Create Rhyming Words:

Students will listen and recognize rhyming words using poetry or rhyming books.

Type: Lesson Plan

Student Center Activities

Phonics: Change My Word:

In this activity, students will segment the onset and rimes of words represented on picture cards. They will then identify the blends, digraphs, and vowel teams that represent each part.

Type: Student Center Activity

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: Phoneme Quest:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonemic Awareness: Medial Phoneme Find:

In this activity, students will isolate medial phonemes by listening to words and choosing a picture that has the same medial sound.

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: Match Maker:

In this activity, students will identify initial phonemes to match picture cards.

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: Make a Match:

In this activity, students will match initial sounds to letters while playing a timed memory game.

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: Rime Closed Sort:

In this activity, students will sort words by rimes.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Letter-Sound Match:

In this activity, students will match initial, final, and medial sounds of words (picture cards) to letters, filling in a missing letter for each word.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Where's That Sound:

In this activity, students will determine if a sound, represented by a targeted letter, is the initial or final sound in a word.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Medial Phoneme Spin:

In this activity, students will match medial sounds of words (picture cards) to letters while playing a spinner game. As an extension, students can also match initial or final sounds of words to letters.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Letter-Sound Bingo:

In this activity, students will match medial sounds of words (picture cards) to letters while playing a game. As an extension, students can also match initial and final sounds of words to letters.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Letter-Sound Mobile:

In this activity, students will match medial sound picture cards to targeted letters while making a mobile.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Letter-Sound Train:

In this activity, students will match medial sounds in words to the target letter on a train.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Letter-Sound Folder Sort:

In this activity, students will match final sound picture cards to letters/letter combinations that represent targeted sounds.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Letter Bag:

In this activity, the student will match the final sound of a word to the letter that represents that sound. As an extension, the student can also match the initial or medial sound of a word to the corresponding letter.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Letter-Sound Dominoes:

In this activity, the student will match the initial sound of a word to the letter that represent that sound.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Letter-Sound Pyramid:

In this activity, students will match final sounds of words to corresponding letters while playing a pyramid game. As an extension, students can also match words with digraphs and vowel teams.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Words Around Us Memory Game:

In this activity, the student will match the initial sound of a word to the letter that represents that sound.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Letter-Sound Place Mats:

In this activity, students will select words (images) that have the same initial sound as their names.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Photo Chart:

In this activity, the student will match the initial sound of a word to the letter that makes that sound.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Brown Bag It:

In this activity, the student will match the initial sound of a word to the letter that represents that sound.

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: 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: 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 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: Syllable Hopscotch:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Feed the Animals:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Clapping Names:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Sentence Graph:

In this activity, the student will segment sentences into words. This skill is typically taught prior to the segmentation of syllables. To fully align to the standard, this activity will need to be extended to include the segmentation of each word in the sentence into syllables.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Sentence Game:

In this activity, the student will segment sentences into words. This skill is typically taught prior to the segmentation of syllables. To fully align to the standard, this activity will need to be extended to include the segmentation of each word in the sentence into syllables.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Nursery Rhymes:

In this activity, the student will segment sentences into words. This skill is typically taught prior to the segmentation of syllables. To fully align to the standard, this activity will need to be extended to include the segmentation of each word in the sentence into syllables.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Rhyme Flip Book:

In this activity, the student will recognize and produce rhyming words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Rhyming Game:

In this activity, the student will recognize rhyming words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Rhyme Memory Match:

In this activity, the student will recognize and match rhyming words. As an extension activity, the student will match words based on initial sounds.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Rhyme Pie:

In this activity, the student will recognize rhyming words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Rhyme Closed Sort:

In this activity, the student will identify rhyming words by completing a closed sort. As an extension activity, the student will complete a closed sort based on initial sounds.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Pocket Rhymes:

In this activity, the student will recognize rhyming words. As an extension, the student can segment the onset and rime of matching pairs.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Rhyming A-LOT-OH!:

In this activity, the student will recognize rhyming words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Rhyme or No Rhyme:

In this activity, the student will recognize rhyming words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness:Rhyme or no Rhyme:

In this activity, the student will recognize rhyming 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

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