Standard 3 : Phonics and Word Recognition (Archived)



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General Information

Number: LAFS.1.RF.3
Title: Phonics and Word Recognition
Type: Cluster
Subject: English Language Arts - Archived
Grade: 1
Strand: Reading Standards: Foundational Skills (K-5)

Related Standards

This cluster includes the following benchmarks
Code Description
LAFS.1.RF.3.3: Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
  1. Know the spelling-sound correspondences for common consonant digraphs.
  2. Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words.
  3. Know final -e and common vowel team conventions for representing long vowel sounds.
  4. Use knowledge that every syllable must have a vowel sound to determine the number of syllables in a printed word.
  5. Decode two-syllable words following basic patterns by breaking the words into syllables.
  6. Read words with inflectional endings.
  7. Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.


Related Access Points

This cluster includes the following access points.

Access Points

Access Point Number Access Point Title
LAFS.1.RF.3.AP.3a: Identify common consonant digraphs using their sound correspondence (e.g., write/state/select “ch” when sounded out).
LAFS.1.RF.3.AP.3b: Decode regularly spelled consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC), CV and VC words.
LAFS.1.RF.3.AP.3c: Recognize silent e as the reason the vowel sound is a long vowel sound in a word.
LAFS.1.RF.3.AP.3d: Determine the number of syllables in a printed word based on knowledge that every syllable must have a vowel sound.
LAFS.1.RF.3.AP.3e: Recognize and pronounce two-syllable words by using knowledge of how to break words into syllables.
LAFS.1.RF.3.AP.3f: Read or identify frequently occurring words with inflectional endings.
LAFS.1.RF.3.AP.3g: Recognize and pronounce grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.


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Lesson Plans

Name Description
Flower Power Flower Company MEA & STEAM* Activity:

This STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) lesson has been designed around a Model-Eliciting Activity.

The Flower Power MEA provides students with an real world problem in which they must work as a team to design a plan to select the best flower arrangement for a special event. The resource was primarily designed as an MEA so the time and teacher instructions are based on the MEA format. The additional activities will take several hours of instruction but include watching and discussing a video about the parts of plants, reading a book, and discussing the art in the book as well as additional art by the book author/illustrator.

Model Eliciting Activities, MEAs, are open-ended, interdisciplinary problem-solving activities that are meant to reveal students’ thinking about the concepts embedded in realistic situations. Click here to learn more about MEAs and how they can transform your classroom.

Life Jackets:

In this Model Eliciting Activity, MEA, the students are to decide what criteria is the most important for a company to consider when choosing life jackets. Students will use tally charts with data about comfort and visibility as well as information provided on 3D figures that can be used to model the life jackets.

Model Eliciting Activities, MEAs, are open-ended, interdisciplinary problem-solving activities that are meant to reveal students’ thinking about the concepts embedded in realistic situations. MEAs resemble engineering problems and encourage students to create solutions in the form of mathematical and scientific models. Students work in teams to apply their knowledge of science and mathematics to solve an open-ended problem, while considering constraints and tradeoffs. Students integrate their ELA skills into MEAs as they are asked to clearly document their thought process. MEAs follow a problem-based, student centered approach to learning, where students are encouraged to grapple with the problem while the teacher acts as a facilitator. To learn more about MEA’s visit: https://www.cpalms.org/cpalms/mea.aspx

I See the Tree – Vowel Team /ee/:

In this lesson, students will decode words with the vowel team /ee/. The students will develop a class-made /ee/ tree in which the students will increase their vocabulary with a variety of /ee/ words and students will create a narrative using words with the vowel team /ee/.

Student Center Activities

Name Description
Fluency: Speedy Syllables:

In this activity, students will quickly read syllables in a timed activity.

Advanced Phonics: Double Time:

In this activity, students will write corresponding spelling patterns for long vowels in multisyllabic words. As an extension activity, students will write the correct vowel for the schwa sound.

Fluency: Pick-A-Part:

In this activity, students will quickly identify letter-sounds and word parts in a card game.

Fluency: Syllable Speed Practice:

In this activity, students will quickly read syllables (sorted by syllable types) in a timed activity.

Fluency: Syllable Sprint:

In this activity, students will quickly read syllables containing varied spelling patterns in a timed activity. NOTE: Additional syllable cards are available in CPALMS' resource .

Fluency: Word Part Race:

In this activity, students will quickly read word parts by using a race car slide.

Fluency: Digraph and Diphthong Dash:

In this activity, students will take turns identifying consonant digraphs, variable vowel teams, and vowel diphthongs in a timed activity.

Advanced Phonics: The Write Word:

In this activity, students will produce words with different spelling patterns while playing a game.

Advanced Phonics: Word-O-Matic:

In this activity, students will make words using letter cards containing digraphs, silent letter combinations, vowel teams, and vowel diphthongs.

Fluency: Word Speed Practice:

In this activity, students will quickly read high frequency words on a practice sheet in a timed activity.

Fluency: Word Sprint:

In this activity, students will quickly read high-frequency words in a timed activity.

Fluency: Pass the Word:

In this activity, students will take turns reading high-frequency word cards in a timed activity.

Fluency: Affix Zip:

In this activity, students will quickly read affixes by doing timed practices. Included in this resource are syllable cards that extend the activity in CPALMS' resource .

Phonics: Word Construction:

In this activity, students will combine base words with affixes and inflections to make new words.

Phonics: Base Word Sort:

In this activity, students will identify word components (base word and affixes) by doing a sort.

Phonics: Compound Concentration:

In this activity, students will form compound words.

Phonics: Syllable Share:

In this activity, students will make words from syllable cards.

Phonics: Parting Words:

In this activity, students will identify and segment base words and inflections.

Phonics: Covering the Bases:

In this activity, students will identify base words and inflections.

Phonics: Word Plus:

In this activity, students will identify and write individual words in compound words.

Phonics: Map and Swoop:

In this activity, students will map graphemes to phonemes and mark syllables within words.

Phonics: Syllables, Words, and Pictures:

In this activity, students will combine syllables to form words by playing a matching game.

Phonics: Syllable Cut-Ups:

In this activity, students will segment and cut words into syllables.

Phonics: Syllable Snake:

In this activity, students will count syllables in words by playing a game.

Phonics: Syllable Scoops:

In this activity, students will segment and sort words by the number of syllables.

Phonics: Say and Spell:

In this activity, students will read and spell high frequency words.

Phonics: Word Concentration:

In this activity, students will read high frequency words while playing a memory game.

Phonics: Jumping Words:

In this activity, students will read high frequency words while playing a checker game.

Phonics: Map-A-Word:

In this activity, students will orally segment phonemes in words and write the corresponding letters in Elkonin boxes.

Phonics: Roll and Read:

In this activity, students will read words with different spelling patterns while playing a board game.

Phonics: Vowel Digraph Baseball:

In this activity, students will identify vowel digraphs in words by playing a baseball board game.

Phonics: Fishing for Vowel Digraphs:

In this activity, students will identify and match vowel digraphs by playing a card game.

Phonics: Same but Different:

In this activity, students will identify and sort different spelling patterns for long vowels.

Phonics: Word Crazy:

In this activity, students will read high frequency words by playing a card game.

Phonics: Change My Word:

In this activity, students will segment the onset and rimes of words represented on picture cards. They will then identify the blends, digraphs, and vowel teams that represent each part.

Fluency: Speedy Phrases:

In this activity, students will read phrases containing high frequency words in a timed activity.

Fluency: Word Climb:

In this activity, students will quickly read and match high frequency words on a game board.

Fluency: I Read, You Point:

In this activity, students will quickly identify words on word cards as they are read aloud by a partner.

Fluency: Fast Words:

In this activity, students will quickly read high frequency words on a practice sheet while being timed.

Fluency: Word Relay:

In this activity, students will read high frequency words in a timed activity.

Fluency: Word Family Zoom:

In this activity, students will quickly read words in the same word family by doing timed practices.

Fluency: Speedy Rime Words:

In this activity, students will quickly read words with the same rime in a timed activity.

Fluency: Fluency Letter Wheel:

In this activity, students will say the names and sounds of letters and consonant digraphs on a spinner in a timed activity.

Phonics: Break Apart:

In this activity, students will segment words by isolating the base words and affixes.

Phonics: Prefix and Suffix Flip Book:

In this activity, students will make words using base words, prefixes, and suffixes (including inflectional endings).

Phonics: Inflection Toss:

In this activity, students will make words by combining base words and inflections while playing a bean bag game.

Phonics: Compound Word Puzzles:

In this activity, students will form compound words by putting puzzle pieces together.

Phonics: Word Syllable Game:

In this activity, students will count the number of syllables in words while playing a board game.

Phonics: Syllable Closed Sort:

In this activity, students will sort words by the number of syllables.

Phonics: Piece It Together:

In this activity, students will make words from syllable puzzle pieces.

Phonics: Picture It In Syllables:

In this activity, students will combine syllables to form words while playing a matching game.

Phonics: Say and Write Letters:

In this activity, students will orally segment words represented by picture cards and write the corresponding letters on spaces in Elkonin boxes.

Phonics: Flip Manipulating Books:

In this activity, students will blend sounds to make words while manipulating cards in a binder.

Phonics: Vowel Slide:

In this activity, students will blend sounds to make words while manipulating a vowel slide.

Phonics: Silent "e" Changes:

In this activity, students will read words with and without the silent "e" pattern.

Phonics: Canned Sort:

In this activity, students will read and sort words based on long and short vowel sounds.

Phonics: Word Bowling:

In this activity, students will read high frequency words while playing a bowling game.

Phonics: Word Memory Game:

In this activity, students will read high frequency words while playing a memory game.

Phonics: Word Baseball:

In this activity, students will read high frequency words while playing a baseball game.

Phonics: Word Fishing:

In this activity, students will read high frequency words while playing a "fishing" game.

Phonics: Word Checkers:

In this activity, students will read high frequency words while they play a checkers game.

Phonics: Sandpaper Words:

In this activity, students will read high frequency words.

Phonics: A Digraph A Word:

In this activity, students will segment names of pictures into phonemes and use letter tiles to spell each word.

Phonics: Make-A-Word:

In this activity, students will segment names of pictures into phonemes and use letters to make each word.

Phonics: Digraph Delight:

In this activity, students will make words using digraph and letter spinners.

Phonics: Three-In-One:

In this activity, students will use consonant and vowel cards to make words.

Phonics: Letter Cube Blending:

In this activity, students will make words using consonant and vowel cubes.

Phonics: Word Steps:

In this activity, students will make words by manipulating one letter at a time.

Phonics: Vowel Stars:

In this activity, the student will blend sounds of letters to make words.

Phonics: Word Maker Game:

In this activity, students will make words using onset and rime cards.

Phonics: Word Roll-A-Rama:

In this activity, students will make words using onset and rime cubes.

Phonics: Change-A-Word:

In this activity, students will make words by matching and blending onsets and rimes.

Phonics: Word Swat:

In this activity, students will make words by matching and blending onsets and rimes.

Phonics: Rime Closed Sort:

In this activity, students will sort words by rimes.

Phonics: Say It Now:

In this activity, students will make words by selecting various letters (onsets) to complete provided rimes.

Phonics: Picture the Word:

In this activity, students select onsets (initial sounds) to complete words using pictures as clues.

Phonics: Onset and Rime Slide:

In this activity, students will make words using a variety of onsets (including blends and digraphs) and sliding rime strips (including short, long, and variable vowels). They will also determine if the new word is real or nonsense.

Phonics: Letter-Sound Folder Sort:

In this activity, students will match final sound picture cards to letters/letter combinations that represent targeted sounds.

Phonics: Letter-Sound Pyramid:

In this activity, students will match final sounds of words to corresponding letters while playing a pyramid game. As an extension, students can also match words with digraphs and vowel teams.

Phonics: How Many Words?:

In this activity, students will make words using letter tiles containing digraphs and vowel pairs.



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Student Center Activity

Title Description
Advanced Phonics: Word-O-Matic:

In this activity, students will make words using letter cards containing digraphs, silent letter combinations, vowel teams, and vowel diphthongs.