This activity can be used at any time of the school year, but it is particularly helpful for the frist week back at school to assess student undersatnding of phonics.
Demonstrates developing skills in using letters, simple sound blends and some sight words to represent known words when spelling
Draws on an increasing range of skills and strategies to fluently read, view and comprehend a range of texts on less familiar topics in different media and technologies
Identifies, blends, segments and manipulates phonological units in spoken words as a strategy for reading and creating texts
Uses initial and extended phonics, including vowel digraphs, trigraphs to decode and encode words when reading and creating texts
Segment sentences into individual words; orally blend and segment single-syllable spoken words; isolate, blend and manipulate phonemes in single-syllable words (phonological awareness)
Understand that a letter can represent more than one sound and that a syllable must contain a vowel sound
Segment sentences into individual words and orally blend and segment onset and rime in single syllable spoken words, and isolate, blend and manipulate phonemes in single syllable words
Understand that a letter can represent more than one sound and that a syllable must contain a vowel sound
Blend and segment onset and rime in single syllable spoken words and isolate, blend and segment phonemes in single syllable words (first consonant sound, last consonant sound, middle vowel sound)
Understand that a letter can represent more than one sound, and that a syllable must contain a vowel sound