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Phonics
As part of Language Arts, students will be working on Phonics every day. Skills students will be working on include:- Identifying and isolating initial sounds
- Recognizing initial sounds
- Printing letters
- Matching initial sounds
- Identifying pictures that begin with initial sounds
- Recognizing final sounds and distinguishing these from other sounds
- Matching final sounds
- Identifying pictures that end with final sounds
- Segmenting phonemes in high-frequency words
- Recognizing and reading high-frequency words
- Printing high-frequency words to complete sentences
- Demonstrating sound-letter correspondence
- Listening to and discussing nonfiction text
- Understanding cause and effect
- Listening and responding to a story
- Identifying and naming initial consonants
- Comparing and contrasting
- Recognizing the singular and plural of frequently used words
