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First Grade Skills Map

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First Grade Skills Map

Decode VCC and CVCC words (ending blends; e.g. ask, list)

Decode CCVC, CCVCC, & CCCVC Words (beginning and ending blends; e.g. slip, stamp, strap)

Know the sounds for common consonant digraphs (sh, ch, tch, th, ph, gh, ng)

Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words with common consonant digraphs (sh, ch, tch, th, ph, gh, ng)

Know the spellings for the common consonant digraphs (/sh/, /ch/, voiced and unvoiced /th/, /f/ spelled ph, /ng/)

Know final -e conventions for representing long vowel sounds

Decode regularly spelled one-syllable VCe & CVCe Words

Read words with suffixes “es,” “er,” y”

Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words with Y as a vowel

Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words with R-Controlled vowels

Decode words with contractions

Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words with double final consonants

Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words with common silent letters (wr, kn, lk)

Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words with “qu,” soft & hard c/g

Know the sounds that represent the common vowel team conventions (e.g. ay, ee, oa, ew, ie)

Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words with vowel teams (e.g. ay, ee, oa, ew, ie)

Know the various spellings for words with long vowel sounds (e.g. /ā/ spelled a_e, ai, or ay; /ē/ spelled ea or ee; /ī/ spelled i_e or ie; /ō/ spelled oa, ow, or o_e; /ū/ spelled ew, etc)

Know the sounds that represent variant vowel combinations (e.g. igh, ough) and diphthongs (e.g. oy, ow)

Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words with variant vowel combinations (e.g. ign, ough) and diphthongs (e.g. oy, ow)

Know the spellings for the words with variant vowel combinations (e.g. /ī/ spelled igh, /ō/ spelled ough) and diphthongs (e.g. /oy/, /ow/)

Read words with inflectional endings (“ed,” “ing”)

Use knowledge that every syllable must have a vowel sound to determine the number of syllables in a printed word

Decode two-syllable words that contain closed syllables

Decode two-syllable words that contain vowel-consonant e syllables

Decode two-syllable words that contain open syllables

Decode two-syllable words that contain vowel combination syllables

Decode two-syllable words that contain consonant-le syllables

Decode two-syllable words that contain r-controlled syllables

Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings

Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary

Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding

Recognize and read grade-appropriate (first grade) irregularly spelled words