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Objectives

a. Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-toStudent will increase phonemic skills from his/her
one letter-sound correspondences by producing present level of....to identifying one-to-one letter- Given a vowel, student will
the primary or many of the most frequent sound
produce the corresponding sound
sound correspondences.
for each consonant.
b. Associate the long and short sounds with Student will improve his/her phonemic skills from.... Given a vowel sound, student will
to associating the long and short sounds with
common spellings (graphemes) for the five major
identify weather the sound is a
common spellings (graphemes) for the five major long or short vowel sound
0.3.0.3 Know and apply
vowels.
vowels.
grade-level phonics and word
Student will increase his/her phonemic skills from Given first 100 (or less) high
analysis skills in decoding
c. Read common high-frequency words by sight his/her present level of....to reading common high- frequency words, the student will
words.
(e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do does). frequency words (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is,
be able to say the sight word...
are, do does) by sight.
Student will improve his/her phonemic skills
d. Distinguish between similarly spelled words by from...to distinguishing between similarly spelled
identifying the sounds of the letters that differ.
words by identifying the sounds of the letters that
differ.
Student will increase his/her phonemics skills from
his/her present level of identifying 26/26 one-to-one
a. Know the spelling-sound correspondences for letter-sound correspondences to...knowing the
common consonant digraphs, and initial and final
spelling-sound correspondences for common
consonant blends.
consonant digraphs, and initial and final consonant
blends.
Student will improve his/her phonics skills from...to
b. Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words.
decoding regularly spelled one-syllable words.
Student will improve his/her phonics skills from....to
c. Know final -e and common vowel team
knowing final -e and common vowel team
conventions for representing long vowel sounds.
1.3.0.3 Know and apply
conventions for representing long vowel sounds.
grade-level phonics and word
Student will improve his/her phonics skills from
d. Use knowledge that every syllable must have using knowledge that every syllable must have a
analysis skills in decoding
a vowel sound to determine the number of
words.
vowel to determine the number of syllables in a
syllables in a printed word
printed word to...
Phonics and Word
Student will improve his/her phonics skills from...to
Recognition
e. Decode two-syllable words following basic
decoding 2 syllable words following basic patterns
patterns by breaking the words into syllables
by breaking the words into syllables.
Student will improve his/her phonics skills from....to
f. Read words with inflectional endings
reading words with inflectional ending.
g. Recognize and read grade-appropriate
irregularly spelled words, including highfrequency words
Student will increase his/her phonics skills from
a. Distinguish long and short vowels when
his/her present level of...to distinquishing long and
reading regularly spelled one-syllable words.
short vowel when reading regularly spelled onesyllable words.
Student will improve his oral language skills FROM
orally stating all letter names and corresponding
sounds and orally reading single syllable
consonant vowel consonant words TO orally
stating the corresponding sounds for one syllable
words containing a consonant digraph, initial
2.3.0.3 Know and apply
blend, long vowel final e and vowel teams using
grade-level phonics and word
direct instruction instruction.
analysis skills in decoding words b. Know spelling-sound correspondences for
additional common vowel teams
c. Decode regularly spelled two-syllable words
with long vowels
d. Decode words with common prefixes and
Student will improve their phonics skills from....to
suffixes.
decoding words with common prefixes and suffixes.
e. Identify words with inconsistent but common
spelling-sound correspondences
f. Recognize and read grade-appropriate
irregularly spelled words, including highfrequency words.
a. Identify and know the meaning of the most Student will improve his/her phonics skills from...to
indentifying and knowing the meaning of the most
common prefixes and derivational suffixes
common prefixes and suffixes.
3.3.0.3 Know and apply
b. Decode words with common Latin suffixes
grade-level phonics and word
analysis skills in decoding
Student will improve his/her phonics skills from
c. Decode multisyllable words.
words.
decoding multisyllable words to...
d. Read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled
words, including high-frequency words.

Objectives
Given a consonant, student will
produce the corresponding sound

Given a word, student will identify

weather the vowel is long or short
Given first 100 (or less) high
frequency words, paired with a
visual, the student will be able to
say the sight word...

a. Use combined knowledge of all letter-sound

correspondences, syllabication patterns, and
morphology (e.g., roots and affixes) to read
accurately unfamiliar multisyllabic words in
context and out of context.
a. Use combined knowledge of all letter-sound
5.3.0.3 Know and apply gradecorrespondences, syllabication patterns, and
level phonics and word analysis
morphology (e.g., roots and affixes) to read
skills in decoding words.
accurately unfamiliar multisyllabic words in
context and out of context.
4.3.0.3 Know and apply gradelevel phonics and word analysis
skills in decoding words.