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Approximate Age of Mastery
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Sample Activities and Reproducibles
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Child can recognize letters by name. |
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Child can point to an "A" and call it an "A." |
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Alphabet Tree (PDF) from Overhead Teaching Kit: Easy Phonics Lessons for the Overhead |
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Child can recognize a few letters by sound. |
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Child can point to a "P" and say that it makes the sound /p/. |
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Child can recognize rhyming sounds and alliterations in simple words. |
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Adult asks child to name a word that sounds like "cat." Child says, "hat." |
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Child can identify when the first letter sound of a word is different from the first letter sound of another word. |
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Adult shows a picture of a sock, a sun, and a boat and asks which picture name begins with a different sound. Child says, "boat." |
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Child can blend simple word parts together to form a word. Child can also distinguish a lower-case letter from an upper-case letter. |
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Adult says /k/ /at/ and asks the child what word has been spelled. Child says, "cat." |
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Child can blend individual letter sounds together to form a word. |
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Kindergarten/
First Grade
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Adult asks the child what word is made when these sounds are put together —/k/ /a/ /t/. Child responds, "cat." |
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Child can segment, or separate, a word sound by sound. |
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First Grade
(Mid – to – late)
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Adult asks the child what sounds make up the word "cat." Child responds, "/k/ /a/ /t/." |
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Worksheet (PDF) from Teaching with Phonics Tiles |
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Child understands how changing letters in a word changes the sounds and the meaning. |
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First Grade
(Mid – to – late)
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Child spells '"cat" and when asked is able to change the "c" to another letter to make a new word such as "bat." |
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Worksheet (PDF) from Teaching with Phonics Tiles |
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Child can sound out one-syllable words with short and long vowel spellings. |
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First Grade
(Mid – to – late)
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Child can sound out the words map, rain, and bean. |
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Child can sound out multisyllabic words. |
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Child can sound out the words sometimes, everything, customer, pilot, and remember. |
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Child can use prefixes, suffixes, and Greek and Latin roots to sound out and define new words. |
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Child can sound out the words unhappy, repeating, telephone, and autograph. |
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