ELA.1.F.1.3

Use knowledge of grade-appropriate phonics and word-analysis skills to decode words accurately. 
  1. Decode words using knowledge of spelling-sound correspondences for common consonant digraphs, trigraphs, and blends. 
  2. Decode simple words with r-controlled vowels.  
  3. Decode and encode regularly spelled one-syllable words. 
  4. Decode words with inflectional endings. 
  5. Decode two-syllable words with regular patterns by breaking the words into syllables. 
  6. Decode words that use final –e and vowel teams to make long-vowel sound. 

Clarifications

Clarification 1: Phonics refers to the relationship between graphemes (letters or letter combinations) and phonemes (speech sounds).

Clarification 2: Students will decode decodable high frequency words appropriate to the grade level. See 1.F.1.4 and Dolch and Fry word lists. Students will read grade-level appropriate high frequency words, decodable or not, with automaticity.

General Information
Subject Area: English Language Arts (B.E.S.T.)
Grade: 1
Strand: Foundational Skills
Date Adopted or Revised: 08/20
Status: State Board Approved

Related Courses

This benchmark is part of these courses.
5010020: Basic Skills in Reading-K-2 (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2021, 2021 and beyond (current))
5010030: Functional Basic Skills in Communications-Elementary (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2022, 2022 and beyond (current))
5010042: Language Arts - Grade One (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2021, 2021 and beyond (current))
7710012: Access Language Arts - Grade 1 (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2018, 2018 - 2022, 2022 and beyond (current))
5010022: Functional Reading Skills K-2 (Specifically in versions: 2021 and beyond (current))
5010026: Functional Reading Skills 3-5 (Specifically in versions: 2021 and beyond (current))
5010012: English for Speakers of Other Languages Grade 1 (Specifically in versions: 2021 and beyond (current))

Related Access Points

Alternate version of this benchmark for students with significant cognitive disabilities.
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.

Related Resources

Vetted resources educators can use to teach the concepts and skills in this benchmark.

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

Student Center Activities

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: 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

Original Student Tutorials for Language Arts - Grades K-5

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.

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.

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.

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.

Student Resources

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

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

Parent Resources

Vetted resources caregivers can use to help students learn the concepts and skills in this benchmark.