LEARN NC

K–12 teaching and learning · from the UNC School of Education

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.

Resources aligned to this objective

Resources on the web

Getting the "ig" in Pig: Helping Children Discover Onset and Rime
This lesson from ReadWriteThink incorporates literature, independent and cooperative learning, critical thinking, and hands-on activities to engage students in learning the “ig” rime. Students explore books and magazines for words that have... (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts)
Provided by: ReadWriteThink
Generating rhymes: Developing phonemic awareness
Learning how to generate rhyme and recognizing rhyming patterns in language is an essential skill for emergent readers. Students should be able to manipulate words and sounds to create simple rhymes, which will help them recognize word and letter patterns... (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts)
Provided by: ReadWriteThink
Dr. Seuss's sound words: Playing with phonics and spelling
Boom! Br-r-ring! Cluck! Moo! — Everywhere you turn, you're bound to find exciting sounds. Whether you visit online sites that play sounds or take a sound hike at school, a near-by park, or on a field trip, ask your students to notice the sounds they... (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts)
Provided by: ReadWriteThink
Click, clack, moo: Reading word family words
In this lesson, students learn to identify rimes or word families and apply their knowledge of these words to the decoding of new words. During a repeated read-aloud of Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type, the teacher stops... (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts)
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The big green monster teaches phonics in reading and writing
In this lesson from ReadWriteThink students begin with a shared reading of the story, Go Away, Big Green Monster! by Ed Emberley. After the shared reading, students engage in a paired reading of the online version to build fluency and word... (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts)
Provided by: ReadWriteThink
Between the lions: Exploring short-vowel sounds
In this ReadWriteThink lesson, early readers are introduced to the “Between the Lions” television program and website. Students review short-vowel sounds and practice their skills using a variety of innovative video clips, games, and activities... (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts)
Provided by: ReadWriteThink
Active Reading Using The Enormous Watermelon
The teacher engages students in an activity to show them how to identify the main character in a text. While reading rebus versions of nursery rhymes online several times, students search for the main character. Following this activity, students identify... (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts)
Provided by: ReadWriteThink