Students are expected to:

First Quarter

-produce short vowel sounds

-identify words that name actions and words that name persons, places, and things.

Second Quarter

-produce consonant blends and consonant digraphs sounds.

-recognize compound words are made up of shorter words.

Third Quarter

-produce long vowel sounds.

-determine what words mean from how they are used in context of a sentence heard or read.

-identify common root words and their inflectional endings.

Fourth Quarter

-locating words in a dictionary and arrange words in alphabetical order to the first letter.

-sort words into conceptual categories. (ex. sorting words by spelling pattern)

-distinguish shades of meaning among verbs and adjectives. (ex. “shouted,” “yelled,” or “cried.”

-read: irregularly spelled words, root words with inflectional endings, contractions and compound words, high-frequency words.