For the educators in the room…The Common Core Standards

Kindergarten

Phonological Awareness

  • CCSSI.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.2
    Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).

  • CCSSI.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.2a
    Recognize and produce rhyming words.

  • CCSSI.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.2c
    Blend and segment onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken words.

  • CCSSI.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.2d
    Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words. (This does not include CVCs ending with/l/, /r/, or /x/.)

  • CCSSI.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.2e
    Add or substitute individual sounds (phonemes) in simple, on-syllable words to make new words.

Grade 1

Phonological Awareness

  • CCSSI.ELA-Literacy.RF.1.2
    Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).

  • CCSSI.ELA-Literacy.RF.1.2a
    Distinguish long from short vowel sounds in spoken single-syllable words.

  • CCSSI.ELA-Literacy.RF.1.2b
    Orally produce single-syllable words by blending sounds (phonemes), including consonant blends.

  • CCSSI.ELA-Literacy.RF.1.2c
    Isolate and pronounce initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in spoken single-syllable words.

  • CCSSI.ELA-Literacy.RF.1.2d
    Segment spoken single-syllable words into their complete sequence of individual sounds (phonemes).

Phonics and Word Recognition

  • CCSSI.ELA-Literacy.RF.1.3
    Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.

  • CCSSI.ELA-Literacy.RF.1.3a
    Know the spelling-sound correspondences for common consonant digraphs.

  • CCSSI.ELA-Literacy.RF.1.3.b
    Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words.

  • CCSSI.ELA-Literacy.RF1.3c
    Know final -e and common vowel team conventions for representing long vowel sounds.

  • CCSSI.ELA-Literacy.RF.1.3d
    Use knowledge that every syllable must have a vowel sound to determine the number of syllables in a printed word.

  • CCSSI.ELA-Literacy.RF.1.3g
    Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.

Grade 2

Phonics and Word Recognition

  • CCSSI.ELA-Literacy.RF.2.3
    Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.

  • CCSSI.ELA-Literacy.RF.2.3a
    Distinguish long and short vowels when reading regularly spelled one-syllable words.

  • CCSSI.ELA-Literacy.RF.2.3b
    Know spelling-sound correspondences for additional common vowel teams.

  • CCSSI.ELA-Literacy.RF.2.3c
    Decode regularly spelled two-syllable words with long vowels.

  • CCSSI.ELA-Literacy.RF.2.3e
    Identify words with inconsistent but common spelling-sound correspondences.

  • CCSSI.ELA-Literacy.RF.2.3f
    Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.