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Grade 1 ELA Reading Foundations

Phonological Awareness, Phonics and Word Recognition

In these lessons, students will learn the fundamental strategies for decoding and spelling. The students will develop their phonological awareness and apply that understanding to tapping to decode and spell. Students will expand their sight word vocabulary which will help increase their fluency and comprehension. Students will become proficient at decoding and spelling closed syllable words and they will begin to apply understanding of v-e syllable types in decoding and spelling. The students will gain a basic understanding of common suffixes and how they change the meaning of the base word.

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Essential Outcomes

Reading Foundations: Phonological Awareness

  • 1RF2: Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).
  • 1RF2a: Count, blend and segment single syllable words that include consonant blends.
  • 1RF2b: Create new words by manipulating individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken one syllable words.
  • 1RF2c: Manipulate individual sounds (phonemes) in single-syllable spoken words.

Reading Foundations: Phonics and Word Recognition

  • 1RF3: Know and apply phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
  • 1RF3a: Know the letter-sound correspondences for common blends and consonant digraphs (e.g., sh, ch, th).
  • 1RF3b: Decode long vowel sounds in regularly spelled one-syllable words (e.g., final -e conventions and common vowel teams).
  • 1RF3c: Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words.
  • 1RF3d: Determine the number of syllables in a printed word by using knowledge that every syllable must have a vowel sound.
  • 1RF3e: Decode two-syllable words following basic patterns by breaking the words into syllables.
  • 1RF3f: Recognize and identify root words and simple suffixes (e.g. run, runs, walk, walked).
  • 1RF3g: Read most common high-frequency words by sight.

Essential Questions and Big Ideas

  • What are words and why are they important?
    • Words are made of a specific order of phonemes, or sounds and have a specific meaning.
    • Phonemes are represented by a letter or a combination of letters which are used to create written words.
    • Words can be spoken and written.
    • Words can be used together or alone to form full thoughts called sentences.
    • People use spoken and written words to communicate.
  • How do readers and writers know how to decode and spell words?
    • Readers use their understanding of phonemes and their letter representations to decode written words.
    • Writers use their understanding of phonemes and their letter representations to write words.
    • Readers and writers expand their understanding of phonemes and letters by learning about syllable types.

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