Spelling VC, CVC, and CCVC Short-Vowel Words

Identify and use common nouns, proper nouns, and regular plural nouns ending in -s and -es in spoken and written sentences.

Identify and use action verbs and personal pronouns accurately to describe activities and replace naming words.

Use adjectives, articles (a, an, the), and common prepositions to describe objects and tell where things are.

Construct, expand, and manipulate simple complete sentences with accurate subject-verb agreement.

Understand and use question starter words to ask and answer questions about people, things, places, time, reasons, and methods.

Demonstrate command of capitalization for sentence starts, 'I', and names, and apply periods, question marks, and exclamation points.

Apply sound-letter relationships to spell phonetically regular short-vowel words in VC, CVC, and CCVC patterns.

Memorize and write high-frequency sight words accurately in emergent sentences.

Determine the meaning of unfamiliar words using illustrations, sentence clues, and inflectional endings (-s, -ed, -ing).

Identify and explain compound words and understand how words can have more than one meaning in different sentences.

Sort words and objects into conceptual categories and make connections between words and their real-world uses.

Identify synonyms, opposites (antonyms), and distinguish subtle shades of meaning among related action verbs.