Foundations for Reading

Virginia SOL K.FFR.3

Phonics and Word Analysis: The student will apply phonetic principles to read and spell words.

What students need to be able to do

  • Applying phonetic principles to read and spell words
  • Identifying capital and lowercase letters of the alphabet
  • Identifying common letter-sound correspondences
  • Discriminating between long and short sounds with common spellings for the five major vowels
  • Understanding open and closed syllables
  • Demonstrating knowledge that every word has a vowel sound
  • Identifying letter-sound correspondences for consonant digraphs
  • Demonstrating knowledge of letter-sound correspondences to blend CV, CVC, VC words
  • Decoding (reading) words with short vowels
  • Decoding words beginning or ending in a digraph
  • Encoding (spelling) words with short vowels
  • Encoding words beginning or ending in a digraph
  • Using letter-sound correspondences to read grade-level high frequency words
  • Reading decodable and irregular words with automaticity and accuracy