Developing and sustaining foundational language skills

The student develops oral language through listening, speaking, and discussion.

Listen actively, ask relevant questions to clarify information, and answer questions using multi-word responses;

Follow, restate, and give oral instructions that involve a short, related sequence of actions;

Share information and ideas about the topic under discussion, speaking clearly at an appropriate pace and using the conventions of language;

Work collaboratively with others by following agreed-upon rules for discussion, including listening to others, speaking when recognized, and making appropriate contributions

Develop social communication such as introducing himself/herself and others, relating experiences to a classmate, and expressing needs and feelings.

The student develops word structure knowledge through phonological awareness, print concepts, phonics, and morphology to communicate, decode, and spell.

Demonstrate phonological awareness by:

Producing a series of rhyming words;

Recognizing spoken alliteration or groups of words that begin with the same spoken onset or initial sound;

Distinguishing between long and short vowel sounds in one-syllable words;

Recognizing the change in spoken word when a specified phoneme is added, changed, or removed;

Blending spoken phonemes to form one-syllable words, including initial and/or final consonant blends;

Manipulating phonemes within base words

Segmenting spoken one-syllable words of three to five phonemes into individual phonemes, including words with initial and/or final consonant blends;

Demonstrate and apply phonetic knowledge by:

Decoding words in isolation and in context by applying common letter sound correspondences;

Decoding words with initial and final consonant blends, digraphs, and trigraphs;

Decoding words with closed syllables; open syllables; VCe syllables; vowel teams, including vowel digraphs and diphthongs r-controlled syllables;

Using knowledge of base words to decode common compound words and contractions;

Decoding words with inflectional endings, including -ed, -s, and -es

Identifying and reading at least 100 high-frequency words from a research-based list;

Use illustrations and texts the student is able to read or hear to learn or clarify word meanings;

Identify the meaning of words with the affixes -s, -ed, and -ing

Identify and use words that name actions, directions, positions, sequences, categories, and locations.

The student reads grade-level text with fluency and comprehension. The student is expected to use appropriate fluency (rate, accuracy, and prosody) when reading grade-level text.

The student reads grade-appropriate texts independently. The student is expected to self-select text and interact independently with text for increasing periods of time.