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Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters.

This requires more knowledge than you think!

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Kinder to 1st Recognize vs. Distinguish between...

Phonological Awareness:

Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).

SOUNDS PRODUCTION-
Beginning, Ending, Middle, Rhyming, Blends --- what sound do these letters make?

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HFW should be mastered in Kinder. The sounds and spelling patterns students learn become more progressively challenging from Kinder to 2nd. Ex: 1:1 correspondence--> inflectional endings -->inconsistent sound spelling patterns and irregularly spelled words.

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Skills build upon each other from one grade to the next

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Vocabulary is expanded by teaching students root words, prefixes, suffixes, and other identifying factors that allow for cognition of new words.

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Everything happens in k-1, entirely oral/listening based, skills building on each other, harder to assess online

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Print concepts only in Kinder and 1st grades
Most are observable and easily assessed skills
Skills are foundational when print concepts are missing students cannot go on...I have seen students without these skills get stalled and their learning halts

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Students are learning "shades" of word meanings, and using sentence context to learn new words

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Phonological awareness:
rhyme, segment, blend, long/ short vowels, beginning middle end of words.

1st grade builds on Kinder

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Increasing complexity from Kinder to 1st in regards to "what" students need to be able to do (ie. explore to demonstrate, or acting to defining)

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In kinder we must hone in our letter to sound correspondence so by 1st grade students can complete sounded spelling and in 2nd show proficency in sound spelling with irregular sounds, long/short vowels, etc.

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Emergent readers read for purpose & Understanding. The fluency is necessary to support comprehension.

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Reading grade level text with purpose and understanding to support comprehension.

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Syllabication increases at 1st & 2nd
Decoding words with suffixes/prefixes at 2nd grade

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The main difference b/w Kinder and 1-5 is Kinder is reading emergent texts for purpose and understanding vs. 1-5 read with enough fluency + accuracy for comprehension.

For each grade, it is about reading

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Main difference - Kinder emergent text for purpose understanding, 1 - 5 accuracy and fluency to support comprehension