RF.3: Phonics and Word Recognition
Anchor Standard The Reading-Foundational Skills strand is not linked to an Anchor Standard. 5th Grade RF.5.3 Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
a) Use combined knowledge of all letter-sound correspondences, syllabication patterns, and morphology (e.g., roots and affixes) to read accurately unfamiliar multisyllabic words in context and out of context. 4th Grade RF.4.3 Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
a) Use combined knowledge of all letter-sound correspondences, syllabication patterns, and morphology (e.g., roots and affixes) to read accurately unfamiliar multisyllabic words in context and out of context. 3rd Grade RF.3.3 Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
a) Identify and know the meaning of the most common prefixes and derivational suffixes.
b) Decode words with common Latin suffixes.
c) Decode multisyllable words.
d) Read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words. 2nd Grade RF.2.3 Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
a) Distinguish long and short vowels when reading regularly spelled one-syllable words.
b) Know spelling-sound correspondences for additional common vowel teams.
c) Decode regularly spelled two-syllable words with long vowels.
d) Decode words with common prefixes and suffixes.
e) Identify words with inconsistent but common spelling-sound correspondences.
f) Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words. 1st Grade RF.1.3 Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
a) Know the spelling-sound correspondences for common consonant digraphs (two letters that represent one sound).
b) Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words.
c) Know final -e and common vowel team conventions for representing long vowel sounds.
d) Use knowledge that every syllable must have a vowel sound to determine the number of syllables in a printed word.
e) Decode two-syllable words following basic patterns by breaking the words into syllables.
f) Read words with inflectional endings.
g) Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words. Kindergarten RF.K.3 Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
a) Demonstrate basic knowledge of letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary or most frequent sound for each consonant.
b) Associate the long and short sounds with the common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels.
c) Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does).
d) Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ. Anchor Notes To build a foundation for college and career readiness, students must read widely and deeply from among a broad range of high-quality, increasingly challenging literary and informational texts. Through extensive reading of stories, dramas, poems, and myths from diverse cultures and different time periods, students gain literary and cultural knowledge as well as familiarity with various text structures and elements. By reading texts in history/social studies, science, and other disciplines, students build a foundation of knowledge in these fields that will also give them the background to be better readers in all content areas. Students can only gain this foundation when the curriculum is intentionally and coherently structured to develop rich content knowledge within and across grades. Students also acquire the habits of reading independently and closely, which are essential to their future success.