The 3 essential benchmarks First Grade will be focusing on are:
*orally producing single-syllable words by blending the word's sounds Can your child blend sounds together to make a word?*isolating and producing initial, middle (vowel), and finals sounds (phonemes) Can your child tell you the sounds in a word?*segmenting spoken single-syllable words into the word's individual sounds Can your child break apart the sounds in a word?
These skills demonstrate your child's ability to manipulate word parts and will ultimately help them be better spellers and word identifiers when they encounter new words while reading.