ELAR K.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) identifying and producing rhyming words;
- (i) recognizing spoken alliteration or groups of words that begin with the same spoken onset or initial sound;
- (ii) identifying the individual words in a spoken sentence;
- (iii) identifying syllables in spoken words;
- (iv) manipulating syllables within a multisyllabic word; and
- (v) blending syllables to form multisyllabic words;
- (vi) segmenting multisyllabic words into syllables;
- (vii) blending spoken onsets and rimes to form simple words;
- (viii) blending spoken phonemes to form one-syllable words;
- (ix) segmenting spoken one-syllable words into individual phonemes;
- (x) demonstrate and apply phonetic knowledge by:
- (B) identifying and matching the common sounds that letters
represent;
- (i) using letter-sound relationships to decode, including VC, CVC, CCVC, and CVCC words;
- (ii) recognizing that new words are created when letters are changed, added, or deleted such as it - pit - tip - tap; and
- (iii) identifying and reading at least 25 high-frequency words from a research-based list;
- (iv) demonstrate and apply spelling knowledge by:
- (C) spelling words with VC, CVC, and CCVC;
- (i) spelling words using sound-spelling patterns; and
- (ii) spelling high-frequency words from a research-based list;
- (iii) demonstrate print awareness by:
- (D) identifying the front cover, back cover, and title page
of a book;
- (i) holding a book right side up, turning pages correctly, and knowing that reading moves from top to bottom and left to right with return sweep;
- (ii) recognizing that sentences are comprised of words separated by spaces and recognizing word boundaries;
- (iii) recognizing the difference between a letter and a printed word; and
- (iv) identifying all uppercase and lowercase letters; and
- (v) develop handwriting by accurately forming all uppercase and lowercase letters using appropriate directionality.
- (A) identifying and producing rhyming words;
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SPLAT! CVC Word Game
Practice decoding and reading 3-letter words with your students with our Splat card game that includes 36 game cards.
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Science of Reading Decoding Strategy Bookmarks and Poster
Help students succeed in reading fluency with this free printable bookmark and poster set of strategies for decoding unknown words.
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Roll it! Read it! Write it! Dolch Pre-Primer Sight Words
Practice reading and writing Dolch’s pre-primer high-frequency words with this board game for multiple players.
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Move and Rhyme - Board Game
Practice producing rhyming words using our rhyme-by-picture board game.
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Four in a Row Game - Rhyming Words
Practice recognizing rhyming words with this set of 12 picture cards and game board.
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Alphabet Matching Activity
A great matching activity for students to practice their letters and initial sounds.
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Handwriting Paper with Dotted Middle Line - Landscape
Handwriting paper for beginning writers.
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Ultimate Blends Poster Pack
Supplement your phonics curriculum with a consonant blends anchor chart/poster pack.
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Season Handwriting Sheets
Handwriting sheets about the seasons.
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CVC/CCVC/CVCC Word Flashcards
A comprehensive set of flashcards for CVC, CCVC, and CVCC words.
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Capital Letter and Periods Worksheet Set
Explore capital letters at the start of sentences and periods at the end with this puncutation worksheet set.
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High Frequency Worksheet Pack - Kinder
Support your Kinder students as they build their early understanding of high‑frequency words with this fun and purposeful worksheet pack.
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High Frequency Tricky Words Teaching Slides - Kinder
Use these explicit, ready-to-teach slides that help students segment sounds, identify the “tricky” part, and learn it by heart, aligned with structured literacy
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Tricky Words Activity Mats
Use these printable tricky word mats as a hands-on activity when introducing high frequency words that have an irregular spelling pattern or one your early readers haven’t learnt yet.
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High Frequency Words Mini Book - Level 1
Use this high frequency mini book to track the heart words and flash words your students have mastered.
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High Frequency Word Mats
Use these high frequency word mats for your Kinder and 1st Grade students to experience a hands-on way of learning high frequency words.
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Hickory Dickory Dock – Nursery Rhyme Poster and PowerPoint
Use this “Hickory Dickory Dock” nursery rhyme poster and PowerPoint to teach your youngest students about rhyme, rhythm and counting.
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Jack Be Nimble – Nursery Rhyme Poster and PowerPoint
Use this “Jack be Nimble” nursery rhyme poster and PowerPoint to teach your youngest students about rhyme and rhythm.
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Row, Row, Row Your Boat – Nursery Rhyme Poster and PowerPoint
Use this “Row Row Row Your Boat” nursery rhyme poster and PowerPoint to teach your youngest students about rhyme and rhythm.
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Hey Diddle Diddle – Nursery Rhyme Poster and PowerPoint
Use this “Hey Diddle Diddle” nursery rhyme poster and PowerPoint to teach your youngest students about rhyme and rhythm.
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I Think Mice Are Rather Nice – Nursery Rhyme Poster and PowerPoint
Use this “I Think Mice Are Rather Nice” nursery rhyme poster and PowerPoint to teach your youngest students about rhyme and rhythm.
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Little Miss Muffet – Nursery Rhyme Poster and PowerPoint
Use this “Little Miss Muffet” nursery rhyme poster to teach your youngest students the features of rhymes.
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Uppercase and Lowercase Matching Activity Pack
Use these uppercase and lowercase matching cut and paste activities to help students identify and name both forms of each letter.
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Uppercase and Lowercase Matching Worksheet Set
Use these uppercase and lowercase matching worksheets to help students identify and name both forms of each letter.
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Letter Recognition Worksheet Pack
Use this set of Alphabet Letter Recognition Worksheets to help students recognize, name, and identify both uppercase and lowercase.
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Rhyming Sort Cookies Activity Mats
Use this cookie tray rhyming sort to explore the auditory component of rhyming words to develop phonemic awareness in your students.
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Rhyming Card Game
A concentration style rhyming card game that can be used to consolidate students' knowledge of rhyming words.
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Rhyming Game - Stand Up, Sit Down Digital Activity
Explore rhyming words with this fun and engaging rhyming words game.
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Counting Syllables Game
Practice counting syllables in this beehive-themed Counting Syllables Game.
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Rhyme Time Stories PowerPoint
Use this Rhyme Time Stories PowerPoint to explore auditory recognition of rhyming words with your young readers.
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Syllables Worksheet Set
Use this Syllable Worksheet set to help students identify syllables in words.
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Syllable Activity – Animal Puzzle
Build students phonological awareness with this syllable activity where students build animal pictures with the number of syllables.