The big green monster teaches phonics in reading and writing

English Language Arts (2004)

Grade 1

• Goal 1: The learner will develop and apply enabling strategies and skills to read and write.
  • Objective 1.01: Develop phonemic awareness and demonstrate knowledge of alphabetic principle:
    • count syllables in a word.
    • blend the phonemes of one-syllable words.
    • segment the phonemes of one-syllable words.
    • change the beginning, middle, and ending sounds to produce new words.
    • create and state a series of rhyming words that may include consonant blends (e.g., flag, brag).
  • Objective 1.02: Demonstrate decoding and word recognition strategies and skills:
    • generate the sounds from all the letters and appropriate letter patterns which should include consonant blends and long and short vowel patterns.
    • use phonics knowledge of sound-letter relationships to decode regular one-syllable words when reading words and text.
    • recognize many high frequency and/or common irregularly spelled words in text (e.g., have said, where, two).
    • read compound words and contractions.
    • read inflectional forms (e.g., -s, -ed, -ing) and root words (e.g., looks, looked, looking).
    • read appropriate word families.
• Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
  • Objective 4.05: Write and/or participate in writing by using an author's model of language and extending the model (e.g., writing different ending for a story, composing an innovation of a poem).
  • Objective 4.06: Compose a variety of products (e.g., stories, journal entries, letters, response logs, simple poems, oral retellings).
• Goal 5: The learner will apply grammar and language conventions to communicate effectively.
  • Objective 5.02: Apply phonics to write independently, using temporary and/or conventional spelling.
  • Objective 5.05: Use basic capitalization and punctuation
    • first word in a sentence.
    • proper names.
    • period to end declarative sentence.
    • question mark to end interrogative sentence.
  • Objective 5.06: Self-monitor composition by using one or two strategies (e.g., rereading, peer conferences).

Kindergarten

• Goal 1: The learner will develop and apply enabling strategies to read and write.
  • Objective 1.01: Develop book and print awareness:
    • identify the parts of books and function of each part.
    • demonstrate an understanding of directionality and voice-print match by following print word for word when listening to familiar text read aloud.
    • demonstrate an understanding of letters, words, and story.
    • identify the title, name of the author and the name of the illustrator.
  • Objective 1.02: Develop phonemic awareness and knowledge of alphabetic principle:
    • demonstrate understanding that spoken language is a sequence of identifiable speech sounds.
    • demonstrate understanding that the sequence of letters in the written word represents the sequence of sounds in the spoken word.
    • demonstrate understanding of the sounds of letters and understanding that words begin and end alike (onsets and rimes).
  • Objective 1.03: Demonstrate decoding and word recognition strategies and skills:
    • recognize and name upper and lower case letters of the alphabet.
    • recognize some words by sight including a few common words, own name, and environmental print such as signs, labels, and trademarks.
    • recognize most beginning consonant letter-sound associations in one-syllable words.
• Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
  • Objective 4.03: Use words that describe color, size, and location in a variety of texts: e.g., oral retelling, written stories, lists, journal entries of personal experiences.
  • Objective 4.06: Write and/or participate in writing behaviors by using authors' models of language.