Skill

RF.K.2.D.iii: Isolate and Pronounce the Medial Vowel Sound in Three-Phoneme (CVC) Words

 

Standard

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.2.D: Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words (This does not include CVCs ending with /l/, /r/, or /x/).

 

Description

• Mastery: Student is able to detect if two or more words have the same medial sound.
• Acquiring: Student is able to produce the medial sound of a given word.

Probes

T: Do you hear /ă/ in the word pig?
S: no

 

T: What is the middle sound in gem?
S: /ĕ/

 

T: Where do you hear the /ŭ/ in hut?
S: at the middle

 

T: Say a word with the sound /ă/ in the middle?
S: (e.g. cat or other word with /ă/ as the middle sound)

 

T: Which words have /ŏ/ in the middle? Bought, gym, rot
S: bought and rot

 

Activities and Resources

 

Small Group Instruction – Direct Instruction

Introduce Middle Sound Segmenting
Phoneme Segmenting Accuracy
Sound Match
PA.006 Medial Phoneme Dominoes
PA.007 Medial Match
PA.012 Phoneme Quest

 

During Transition

Song- Fiddle Around with the Middle Sound

 

Reinforce Skills/Independent Work Time – Independent/Small Group Center Activity

PA.038 Move and Tell
PA.039 Sound Quest
PA.041 Phoneme Photos
PA.042 Phoneme Closed Sort
Clifford Interactive Memory Game

 

Display (e.g. Anchor Chart):

 

Source: Ms. Hale’s Teaching Strategies Profile	Source: Can Do Kinders	Source: Mrs. Gilchrist’s Class

Considerations & Reminders

• As students begin to isolate individual sounds, teachers must be careful to articulate each sound clearly for the students. Teachers should consider proximity during instruction and that all students can see proper mouth movements and accuracy of pronunciation.
• Teachers should be careful not add the schwa when pronouncing individual sounds for students.
• Focus only on the medial phoneme in three-phoneme words.