ELA.2.F.1.3

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Use knowledge of grade-appropriate phonics and word-analysis skills to decode words.
  1. Decode words with variable vowel teams (e.g., oo, ea, ou) and vowel diphthongs (e.g., oi, oy, ow).
  2. Decode regularly spelled two-syllable words with long and short vowels.
  3. Decode words with open (e.g., hi, baby, moment) and closed (e.g., bag, sunshine, chop) syllables and consonant -le (e.g., purple, circle, stumble).
  4. Decode words with common prefixes and suffixes.
  5. Decode words with silent letter combinations (e.g., knight, comb, island, ghost).

 

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 2.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: 2
Strand: Foundational Skills
Standard: 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))
5010043: Language Arts - Grade Two (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2021, 2021 and beyond (current))
7710013: Access Language Arts - Grade 2 (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2018, 2018 - 2022, 2022 and beyond (current))
5010024: Basic Skills in Reading 3-5 (Specifically in versions: 2021 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))
5010013: English for Speakers of Other Languages Grade 2 (Specifically in versions: 2021 and beyond (current))

Related Access Points

Alternate version of this benchmark for students with significant cognitive disabilities.
ELA.2.F.1.AP.3a: Decode words with variable vowel teams (e.g., oo, ea, ou) and vowel diphthongs (e.g., oi, oy, ow).
ELA.2.F.1.AP.3b: Decode regularly spelled two-syllable words with long and short vowels.
ELA.2.F.1.AP.3c: Decode words with open (e.g., hi, baby, moment) and closed (e.g., bag, sunshine, chop) syllables and consonant -le (e.g., purple, circle, stumble).
ELA.2.F.1.AP.3d: Decode words with common prefixes and suffixes.
ELA.2.F.1.AP.3e: Decode words with silent letter combinations (e.g., knight, comb, island, ghost).

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Lesson Plans

Choosing a Host City for the Olympic Games:

In this model eliciting activity, students are asked to help the International Olympic Committee rank prospective host cities for upcoming Summer Olympic Games. Students are provided with data about a list of applicant cities and then must rank the cities and write a proposal to the IOC explaining their rankings. At the end of the MEA, the students will write an opinion piece for the International Olympic Committee that tells their final decision about which city should be the next host of the Summer Olympic Games.

Type: Lesson Plan

Listen Up! Having Fun with Sound Words:

In this lesson, students will be able to recognize and decode the use of sound words in literature. Students will practice these skills through a sound game, creating a word web, and making a sound word flip book.

Type: Lesson Plan

Prefix Lesson:

This lesson is an introduction to using the prefixes re-, pre-, and un-. In this lesson, students work with partners to add common prefixes to words and define the new meaning of the word. Students will create a digital presentation showcasing examples of the prefixes in use in sentences.

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.

Type: Lesson Plan

I See the Tree – Vowel Team /ee/:

In this lesson, students will decode words with the vowel team /ee/. The students will develop a class-made /ee/ tree in which the students will increase their vocabulary with a variety of /ee/ words and students will create a narrative using words with the vowel team /ee/.

Type: Lesson Plan

Student Center Activities

Phonics: Word Construction:

In this activity, students will combine base words with affixes and inflections to make new words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Base Word Sort:

In this activity, students will identify word components (base word and affixes) by doing a sort.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Front or Back:

In this activity, students will add affixes to base words to make new words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Affix Hunt:

In this activity, students will identify base words and affixes (prefixes and suffixes).

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Compound Concentration:

In this activity, students will form compound words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Syllable Share:

In this activity, students will make words from syllable cards.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Syllable Trivia:

In this activity, students will identify syllable patterns by playing a game.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Parting Words:

In this activity, students will identify and segment base words and inflections.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Covering the Bases:

In this activity, students will identify base words and inflections.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Word Plus:

In this activity, students will identify and write individual words in compound words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Six-Way Syllable Sort:

In this activity, students will sort words by syllable types.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Map and Swoop:

In this activity, students will map graphemes to phonemes and mark syllables within words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Syllables, Words, and Pictures:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Sight and Sound Scout:

In this activity, students will match vowel diphthong patterns by playing a board game.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Diphthong-O:

In this activity, students will identify vowel diphthongs by playing a bingo-type game.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Spell and Sort:

In this activity, students will identify vowel digraphs by completing a spell and sort activity.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Syllable Cut-Ups:

In this activity, students will segment and cut words into syllables.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Syllable Snake:

In this activity, students will count syllables in words by playing a game.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Syllable Scoops:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Map-A-Word:

In this activity, students will orally segment phonemes in words and write the corresponding letters in Elkonin boxes.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Roll and Read:

In this activity, students will read words with different spelling patterns while playing a board game.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Vowel Digraph Baseball:

In this activity, students will identify vowel digraphs in words by playing a baseball board game.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Fishing for Vowel Digraphs:

In this activity, students will identify and match vowel digraphs by playing a card game.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Same but Different:

In this activity, students will identify and sort different spelling patterns for long vowels.

Type: Student Center Activity

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: 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: Match Maker:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: How Many Words?:

In this activity, students will make words using letter tiles containing digraphs and vowel pairs.

Type: Student Center Activity

STEM Lessons - Model Eliciting Activity

Choosing a Host City for the Olympic Games:

In this model eliciting activity, students are asked to help the International Olympic Committee rank prospective host cities for upcoming Summer Olympic Games. Students are provided with data about a list of applicant cities and then must rank the cities and write a proposal to the IOC explaining their rankings. At the end of the MEA, the students will write an opinion piece for the International Olympic Committee that tells their final decision about which city should be the next host of the Summer Olympic Games.

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