Literacy Skills in the Morning Message

This morning message was our opportunity to work on some serious phonological and phonics skills in addition to our regular concepts about print. We isolated beginning, middle, and final phonemes and then wrote the corresponding letter for each sound. The specific common core standard is: (letter d)

Reading: Foundational Skills

Phonological Awareness

2. Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).

1. Recognize and produce rhyming words.
2. Count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words.
3. Blend and segment onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken words.
4. Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words. ¹ (This does not include CVCs ending with /l/, /r/, or /x/.)
5. Add or substitute individual sounds (phonemes) in simple, one-syllable words to make new words.