Phonics in context
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A lesson plan for Grade 1 English Language Arts
In this lesson from ReadWriteThink, teachers choose literature that contains the necessary phonics elements for instruction, then plan before, during, and after activities for read-aloud or shared reading experiences. Careful and ongoing assessment of students' phonics skill acquisition assists students in successfully internalizing and generalizing the selected phonics element.
North Carolina Curriculum Alignment
English Language Arts (2004)
Grade 1
- Goal 1: The learner will develop and apply enabling strategies and skills to read and write.
- 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.
- Objective 1.02: Demonstrate decoding and word recognition strategies and skills:
- Goal 2: The learner will develop and apply strategies and skills to comprehend text that is read, heard, and viewed.
- Objective 2.02: Demonstrate familiarity with a variety of texts (storybooks, short chapter books, newspapers, telephone books, and everyday print such as signs and labels, poems, word plays using alliteration and rhyme, skits and short plays).
- Objective 2.08: Discuss and explain response to how, why, and what if questions in sharing narrative and expository texts.



