Phonemic Awareness: Blending, Segmenting, and Manipulation

Hold books correctly, navigate pages from front to back, track print with left-to-right directionality and return sweeps, and distinguish letters, words, and sentences.

Recognize, name, match, and accurately form all 26 uppercase and lowercase letters using proper stroke order, pencil grip, and spatial alignment.

Hear, identify, and produce rhymes, alliterative phrases, spoken sentence word counts, and multisyllabic word parts.

Blend and segment onsets and rimes, and isolate initial, final, and medial sounds in spoken single-syllable words.

Orally blend, segment, add, delete, and substitute individual phonemes in spoken VC and CVC words.

Map letters to primary consonant and short vowel sounds to decode and spell regular closed-syllable VC and CVC words.

Decode CCVC and CVCC words with consonant blends and digraphs, and contrast short closed vowels with open long vowel syllables.

Recognize, read, and spell high-frequency regular and irregular words automatically in isolation and connected text.

Read decodable and authentic emergent texts with phrasing, comprehension, and self-monitoring strategies.