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PHONICS
Phonics: Using the relationships between letters and
sounds to pronounce a group of letters (words) or to spell words.
Letter-Sound Correspondence Knowledge
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Identifies the letter when
someone produces the corresponding sound.
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Says the most common sound
associated with individual letters.
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Produces the sounds associated
with all individual letters fluently (ex: 1 letter-sound per second).
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Produces the sounds that
correspond to frequently used letter combinations (ex: sh, er, th, ch...).
Decoding
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Blends the sounds of individual
letters to read one-syllable, short-vowel, decodable words (ex: sun, map).
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Decodes (sounds out and blends)
words with consonant blends (ex: mask, slip, play).
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Decodes (sounds out and blends)
words with letter combinations accurately (diagraphs: fish, bath, chin;
common letter combinations: book, farm, toy).
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Uses knowledge of individual
letter-sound correspondences and letter-combinations to read regular
monosyllabic (one syllable) words fluently (e.g: mask, skip, play, fish,
them, chin, at a rate of one word every 1 to 1.5 seconds).
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Reads words with common words
parts (ex: ing, all, ike).
Ways to work on these skills with your child:
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Play word games with your child
(Scrabble, Scrabble Junior, Boggle, Hangman, etc.)
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Give you child letter tiles and
ask them to arrange the tiles into words (ex: Give the tiles a,c,t – now
make ‘cat’. Remove the c tile and what word do you have? /at/ Put an /m/
tile in front and what do you have? /mat/)
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Using sidewalk chalk, make a
hopscotch game using rhyming words. Have your child hop through it while
reading the words. For a kindergarten child, just use letters instead of
words
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