Alignment of DRA2 Word Analysis Tasks to FCRR Phonics and Phonological Awareness Activities Tasks 1-28

Task Reading Element Related FCRR Activities

1 , 13 Phonological Awareness K-1 Phonological Awareness Activities
Distinguishing pictured rhyming words RHYME
PA.001-009
2, 3, 11 Phonological Awareness K-1 Phonological Awareness Activities
Distinguishing initial sounds of pictured Phoneme Isolation
words PA.036
4, 7 Concepts about Print n/a
Understanding words used to talk about
printed language concepts
5&6 (Alphabet Knowledge) Print K-1 Letter Recognition Activities
Recognizing Capital and Lower Case Letters Concepts & Phonics P.001-011

8 Phonological Awareness K-1 Phonological Awareness Activities

Segmenting words into sentences. Sentence Segmentation
PA.013-015
9, 17, 22 Phonics K-1 Phonics
Recognizing High Frequency Words (irregular words) High Frequency Words
P.041-046
10 Phonics (encoding-spelling) N/A
Spelling two letter words
12, 21 Phonological Awareness K-1 Phonological Awareness Activities
Blending and segmenting phonemes (single Phoneme Segmenting and Blending
sounds) into words PA.040 -048
14, 19, 23 Phonological Awareness K-1 Phonological Awareness Activities
Segmenting words into onsets and Onset and Rime
rimes/providing words that begin with the PA.021 - 024
same sound
15 Phonological Awareness K-1 Phonological Awareness Activities
Deleting onsets Phoneme Manipulation
PA.049
16 Phonics K-1 Phonics Activities
Spelling three letter words with short vowels Encoding/Decoding
P.034-039
18 Phonological Awareness K-1 Phonological Awareness Activities
Segmenting words into syllables Syllables
PA.016-020
20, 24 Phonological Awareness K-1 Phonological Awareness Activities
Deleting or substituting final sounds Phoneme Isolation
PA.037-050
25 Phonics K-1 Phonics Activities
Blending and using initial consonant sounds Variant Correspondences
P.050
26 Phonics K-1 Phonics Activities
Identifying words with long and short vowels Variant Correspondences
P.047-052
27 Phonics This is a review of many skills – no one FCRR
Spelling Check (this is a review of many skills activity or section addresses these all in one.
including vce patterns, preconsonant nasals,
initial digraphs and suffixes.
Task 28 Phonics (vocabulary via K-1 Phonics Activities
Using structural analysis to determine word morphemic analysis) Morpheme Structures
meaning P.058-060
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Task Reading Element Related FCRR Activities

29 Phonics 2-3 Phonics
Recognizing high frequency words Irregular Word Reading High Frequency Words
P.008-011

30 Phonics 2-3 Phonics

Substituting Rimes Letter-Sound Correspondence (words with
Student reads words in sets of 6 with similar beginning digraphs and blends)
onsets (digraphs/blends) but different P.001-007
ending rimes.
31, 32 Phonics 2-3 Phonics
Using analogies to decode words Variant Correspondences
Identifying words with vowel patterns P.012 through P.028

33, 34, 35, 37, 38, 39 Phonics 2-3 Phonics

Blending and using initial syllables Syllable Patterns
P.029-P.036

Segmenting words into syllables II & III May also need to refer back to K-1
Phonological Awareness FCRR Task PA.016-20

Using structural analysis to determine word Morpheme Structures

meaning (suffixes II) P.037-P.044

Using structural analysis to determine word

meaning (prefixes)

Using structural analysis to determine word

meaning (suffixes III)

36, 40 Phonics These are combination spelling checks that

Spelling Check IV and V address many of the combined skills
represented among FCRR activities. There is
no one FCRR activity that addresses all the
skills assessed in these spelling checks.

Table of Contents FCRR Grades 4-5 (on grade level) Phonics Activities:

4-5 Advanced Phonics 4-5 Fluency

Variant Correspondences Word Parts/Words
AP001-007 F.001-008
Syllable Patterns Phrases/Chunked Text
AP.008-013 F.009-013
Morpheme Structures Connected Text
AP.014-022 F.014-024

The FCRR.org website also has vocabulary and comprehension activities grades K-5.