ELAR 1.2
Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--beginning reading and writing. The student develops word structure knowledge through phonological awareness, print concepts, phonics, and morphology to communicate, decode, and spell. The student is expected to:
- (1) demonstrate phonological awareness by:
- (A) producing a series of rhyming words;
- (i) recognizing spoken alliteration or groups of words that begin with the same spoken onset or initial sound;
- (ii) distinguishing between long and short vowel sounds in one-syllable words;
- (iii) recognizing the change in spoken word when a specified phoneme is added, changed, or removed;
- (iv) blending spoken phonemes to form one-syllable words, including initial and/or final consonant blends;
- (v) manipulating phonemes within base words; and
- (vi) segmenting spoken one-syllable words of three to five phonemes into individual phonemes, including words with initial and/or final consonant blends;
- (vii) demonstrate and apply phonetic knowledge by:
- (B) decoding words in isolation and in context by applying
common letter sound correspondences;
- (i) decoding words with initial and final consonant blends, digraphs, and trigraphs;
- (ii) decoding words with closed syllables; open syllables; VCe syllables; vowel teams, including vowel digraphs and diphthongs; and r-controlled syllables;
- (iii) using knowledge of base words to decode common compound words and contractions;
- (iv) decoding words with inflectional endings, including -ed, -s, and -es; and
- (v) identifying and reading at least 100 high-frequency words from a research-based list;
- (vi) demonstrate and apply spelling knowledge by:
- (C) spelling words with closed syllables, open syllables,
VCe syllables, vowel teams, and r-controlled syllables;
- (i) spelling words with initial and final consonant blends, digraphs, and trigraphs;
- (ii) spelling words using sound-spelling patterns; and
- (iii) spelling high-frequency words from a research-based list;
- (iv) demonstrate print awareness by identifying the information that different parts of a book provide;
- (D) alphabetize a series of words to the first or second letter and use a dictionary to find words; and
- (E) develop handwriting by printing words, sentences, and answers legibly leaving appropriate spaces between words.
- (A) producing a series of rhyming words;
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Lowercase Letter Formation Task Cards
A set of task cards for younger students to learn how to accurately form all lowercase letters.
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Uppercase Letter Formation Task Cards
A set of task cards for younger students to learn how to accurately form all uppercase letters.
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CCVC Word Dominoes
Practice decoding and spelling CCVC words with this set of 28 dominoes.
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FIND IT! Long and Short Vowels - Task Cards
Practice distinguishing between short vowel sounds and long vowel sounds with this set of 16 task cards.
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FIND IT! Rhyming Words Game
Practice recognizing rhyming with pictures and words using this set of 20 cards.
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1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Once I Caught A Fish Alive - Poster and Cut-Out Pages
A poetry activity using the popular children’s poem ‘1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Once I Caught a Fish Alive’.
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Trace, Draw, and Order Sentences Worksheets
A set of sentence building worksheets.
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Tap It! Letter Sound Task Cards
Practice applying letter-sound correspondences with this set of 26 task cards, each with different corresponding beginning letter images.
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FIND IT! Letter Sounds Board Game
Develop letter-sound relationships using this engaging multiplayer board game with 26 alphabet cards that players match to recognizable pictures.
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Ladybug Beats Poem - Simple Rhyming Poetry Poster
A simple rhyming poem to develop vocabulary, reading, speaking, and listening in the early years.
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Vocabulary Match-Up
Print an engaging picture-word memory game that gets students actively reading while matching images to their words.
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Primary Weekly Poetry Guide - Week 3
Use this weekly poetry guide to celebrate National Poetry Month in your primary classroom.
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Vowel Sounds Sort - /i/, /o/, and /u/
Practice distinguishing between long and short vowel sounds for letters /i/, /o/ and /u/ by sorting this set of 24 picture cards into categories.
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Dolch Noun Sounding Out Cards
A set of 95 cards containing Dolch nouns for students to practice sounding out words.
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Sight Word BINGO (Fry Word List 201-300)
Practice learning sight words 201-300 on the Fry Sight Word List with our set of 22 Sight Words Bingo cards.
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Hey Diddle Diddle Nursery Rhyme – Poster and Cut-Out Pages
A poetry activity using the popular children’s poem “Hey Diddle Diddle".
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Beginning Sounds Sorting Activity
Practice identifying beginning sounds of words by sorting this set of 24 picture cards.
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Alphabetize the Aquarium Activity
A set of 4 mats for students to practice alphabetizing.
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Phoneme Segmentation Flashcards - Tricky Words
A set of 30 tricky word phoneme segmentation flashcards.
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Primary Weekly Poetry Guide - Week 2
Use this weekly poetry guide to celebrate National Poetry Month in your primary classroom.
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Before I Go To Bed Concept Book
A printable concept book to help your students explore their bedtime routine.
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Phoneme Segmentation Flashcards – Set 2
A set of over 180 decodable phoneme segmentation flashcards.
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Word Building Cards
A comprehensive set of phonemes and letter combinations to help your students build words.
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Color Rhyming and Poetry Worksheet
A worksheet to help students form rhyming words and create a rhyming poem.
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Rhyme or BUST! Card Game
Engage your students in this rhyme recognition activity that awards points for correctly identifying rhyming pairs.
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My Little Sight Word Book - You
A little book of activities for the sight word ‘you’.
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My Little Sight Word Book - We
A little book of activities for the sight word ‘we’.
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Who Is Charity Adams Earley? – Shared Reading and Activity
Read along to learn about soldier & activist Charity Adams Earley with this 13-slide PowerPoint presentation.
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Find and Sort Active Game
An active game that allows students to practice sorting word families.
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Musical Blending Active Game
An active game that allows students to practice using blends and digraphs.
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Rhyming Practice - Cut and Paste Worksheet
Practice identifying rhyming words with this cut and paste worksheet.
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Word Morph Active Game
An active game that allows students to test and build their phonetic knowledge.