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Concepts Reading Standard 3.1	· Concepts about print · Phonological Awareness · Word Recognition and Decoding · Fluency
Skills	Distinguish letters from words Recognize that words are separated by spaces Match oral words to printed words Practice reading print in the environment Locate and identify the title, author, and illustrator of a book or reading selection Track print left to right on line, top to bottom on page, front to back of book Recognize that capitalization and punctuation are used for comprehension Demonstrate phonemic awareness by rhyming, clapping syllables, and substituting sounds Listen to one-syllable words and tell the beginning or ending sounds Produce rhyming words and know the difference between rhyming and non-rhyming words Recognize non-phonetic words as sight words Match all consonant sounds in spoken words (initial/final consonants) Practice reading behaviors such as retelling, reenacting, or dramatizing stories Listen attentively to a variety of texts (fiction, non-fiction, poetry)	Listen and combine separate phonemes to form a word Recognize short vowel sounds Break a word into its separate sounds Decode regular one-syllable words and nonsense words Learn and apply letter/sound correspondences (medial consonants) Identify word parts in new words (word families) Read a variety of texts (non-fiction, fiction, poetry)	Blend consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) sounds aloud to make words Recognize and read short vowel sounds in words Count number of syllables in a word Introduce long vowel sounds Decode consonant digraphs (th, ch, sh, wh) Decode consonant blends (br, cl, bl, fl) Answer questions correctly that are posed about stories read	Listen for long vowel sounds Recognize long vowel sounds Recognize long vowels and (CVCe) words Begin to read with fluency when recognizing words and comprehending text	Decode long regular vowel patterns (ay, ee, oa) Read long vowels in words Begin to read with fluency both fiction and nonfiction that is grade-level appropriate	Identify and use regular plurals and possessives Read word endings in known base words (eg. ing) Read and understand contractions	Identify and read compound words Decode vowel/consonant combinations (i.e. -r-controlled, vowels) Read accurately and automatically a variety of text	Review regular vowel patterns and vowel consonant combinations Read with accuracy many irregularly spelled words and spelling patterns
Essential Questions	What sounds do letters make? What are rhyming words? What does good listening look like? What is the title, author, and illustrator of a book?	How can I put letter sounds together to form words? How do short vowel sounds help me to decode words?	How can I blend consonants and vowels together to form words? How do I use story content to answer questions?	How can I read more smoothly? How do long vowel sounds help me to decode words?	How do I use vowel patterns to decode?	What are contractions? What are plurals? What are word endings?	What are r-controlled vowels? What are compound words?	How can I recognize word patterns? What are irregularly spelled words and spelling patterns?
ASSESSMENT	· Observation · Reading Response Journals · Running Records · Student/Teacher Conferences