Reading Rockets - Phonics and Decoding

Grade Levels

Kindergarten, Pre-Kindergarten

Course, Subject

English Language Arts

Related Academic Standards

Develop beginning phonics and word skills. • Associates some letters with their names and sounds. • Identify familiar words and environmental print.

CC.1.1.K.D CC.1.1.K.D

Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. • Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondence. • Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings for the five major vowels. • Read grade-level high-frequency sight words with automaticity. • Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ.

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Big Ideas

Effective readers use appropriate strategies to construct meaning.
Concepts

Phonics and Word Recognition

Phonological Awareness
Competencies

Associate some letters with their names and sounds. Identify familiar words and environmental print.

Recognize rhyming words and alliteration. Count syllables in spoken words. Segment single syllable spoken words. Isolate and pronounce initial sounds.

Description

This resource provides information about how to teach children to sound out words, and what to do if a child is having difficulty linking letters and sounds.

Rationale

Phonics is the understanding that there is a predictable relationship between the sounds of spoken language, and the letters and spellings that represent those sounds in written language. Successful decoding occurs when a student uses his or her knowledge of letter-sound relationships to accurately read a word.

URL or Resource

http://www.readingrockets.org/atoz/phonics_decoding/

Content Provider or Additional Information

Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets - Phonics and Decoding