ELA.K.F.1.3

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Use knowledge of grade-appropriate phonics and word-analysis skills to decode words accurately.
  1. Demonstrate knowledge of the most frequent sound for each consonant. 
  2. Demonstrate knowledge of the short and long sounds for the five major vowels. 
  3. Decode consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words. 
  4. Encode consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words.

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 K.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: K
Strand: Foundational Skills
Standard: Learning and Applying Foundational Reading 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))
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))
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))
5010011: English for Speakers of Other Languages Kindergarten (Specifically in versions: 2021 and beyond (current))

Related Access Points

Alternate version of this benchmark for students with significant cognitive disabilities.
ELA.K.F.1.AP.3a: Demonstrate knowledge of the most frequent sound for consonants.
ELA.K.F.1.AP.3b: Demonstrate knowledge of the short and long sounds for the five major vowels.
ELA.K.F.1.AP.3c: Decode consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words.
ELA.K.F.1.AP.3d: Encode consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words.

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Student Center Activities

Fluency: Word Relay:

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

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

Fluency: Letter Flash:

In this activity, students will identify letters and their sounds in a timed activity.

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: Fluency Letter Wheel:

In this activity, students will say the names and sounds of letters and consonant digraphs on a spinner in a timed activity.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: A Digraph A Word:

In this activity, students will segment names of pictures into phonemes and use letter tiles to spell each word.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Digraph Delight:

In this activity, students will make words using digraph and letter spinners.

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

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

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