K — OE1.1 Explore sounds, rhythms, and language structures, with guidance and on their own

K — OE2.2 Identify and generate rhyming words, and identify and produce words that begin with the same initial sound

Grade 1 — B2.1 Use understanding of the sound structure of spoken words to orally isolate, blend, and segment phonemes

Grade 1 — B2.2 Use knowledge of the relationships between letters and sounds, including consonant digraphs, to read and spell words

Grade 2 — B2.1 Use phonics knowledge, including phonemic blending, to read and spell words, including common digraphs

Grade 2 — B2.2 Use knowledge of the relationships between letters and sounds, including consonant and vowel digraphs, to read and spell words

Grade 3 — B2.1 Use phonics knowledge, including knowledge of digraphs and vowel patterns, to read and spell unfamiliar words

K — Language features, structures, and conventions: phonemic and phonological awareness, including recognizing that letters represent sounds and beginning to connect letter combinations to sounds

Grade 1 — Language features, structures, and conventions: phonological awareness; phonics and word study, including decoding words using knowledge of sound-letter relationships and common letter patterns such as digraphs

Grade 2 — Language features, structures, and conventions: phonics and word study, including applying knowledge of digraphs and other letter combinations to decode unfamiliar words

Grade 3 — Language features, structures, and conventions: word study skills, including using knowledge of letter patterns and phonics generalizations to read with accuracy and fluency

K — Children make connections between letters and sounds in words; children are developing awareness of the relationship between spoken and written language

Grade 1 — Students manipulate sounds in words in oral language; students apply phonic knowledge and skills to decode words, including recognizing that two letters can represent one sound

Grade 2 — Students apply phonic knowledge, including knowledge of digraphs (two letters representing one sound), to read and spell words accurately

Grade 3 — Students apply word identification strategies, including phonics knowledge of digraphs and common letter patterns, to read unfamiliar words

K — Recognize, apply, and adapt rules and conventions: developing awareness of sound-symbol relationships and that some sounds are represented by two letters working together

Grade 1 — Recognize, apply, and adapt rules and conventions: apply phonics knowledge including digraphs to decode words in reading; understand that letter combinations can represent single sounds

Grade 2 — Recognize, apply, and adapt rules and conventions: apply growing phonics knowledge, including digraphs and vowel patterns, to read and write words accurately

Grade 3 — Recognize, apply, and adapt rules and conventions: use knowledge of word structure, including digraphs and common spelling patterns, to read and write with increasing accuracy

K — Demonstrate an awareness of words and some sounds in spoken language; begin to understand that two letters together can make one sound

Grade 1 — Demonstrate an awareness of sounds in spoken language; apply knowledge of digraphs when decoding words in reading and encoding words in writing

Grade 2 — Apply phonics knowledge, including consonant and vowel digraphs, to read and spell words accurately in a variety of contexts

Grade 3 — Use phonics and word identification strategies, including digraph knowledge, to read unfamiliar words with increasing independence

K — GCO 4: 4.5 Demonstrate letter knowledge, including early awareness that certain letter combinations represent single sounds

Grade 1 — GCO 4: 4.3 Use strategies to make sense of texts, including applying phonics knowledge such as digraphs to decode unfamiliar words

Grade 1 — GCO 4: 4.5 Apply knowledge of sound-symbol relationships, including common digraphs, to read words accurately

Grade 2 — GCO 4: 4.3 Use a range of decoding strategies, including knowledge of digraphs and letter patterns, to read with accuracy and comprehension

Grade 3 — GCO 4: 4.3 Apply phonics knowledge, including digraphs and other spelling conventions, to read and write with increasing independence

K — Use knowledge of phonemes to isolate, blend, and segment one-syllable words orally; develop awareness that two letters can combine to represent a single sound

Grade 1 — Use knowledge of phonemes to isolate, blend, and segment words orally; apply knowledge of digraphs when reading and writing words

Grade 2 — Apply phonics knowledge including digraphs and vowel patterns to read and spell words; use word identification strategies to read unfamiliar words accurately

Grade 3 — Use phonics knowledge, including digraphs and common word patterns, to read and write unfamiliar words with growing independence

K — Understand basic concepts of print including directionality, word, space, letter, and sound; develop early awareness of sound-letter relationships including that two letters can represent one sound

Grade 1 — Understand basic concepts of print including directionality, word, space, letter, and sound; apply phonics knowledge including digraphs to decode words when reading

Grade 2 — Apply phonics knowledge, including consonant and vowel digraphs, to read and spell words in reading and writing contexts

Grade 3 — Use phonics and word study strategies, including knowledge of digraphs and spelling patterns, to read and write unfamiliar words accurately

K — CCK.2 Use and construct symbols, pictures, and dramatizations to communicate feelings and ideas; develop early awareness that letters and letter combinations represent sounds in words

Grade 1 — CC1.2 Represent key ideas and events in a logical sequence and with detail; apply phonics knowledge including digraphs to decode words when reading aloud and independently

Grade 2 — CR2.1 Use a variety of strategies to construct meaning from texts, including applying knowledge of digraphs and letter patterns to decode unfamiliar words

Grade 3 — CR3.1 Read and demonstrate comprehension of a variety of grade-appropriate texts; apply word identification strategies including digraph knowledge to read accurately and fluently