ELA.K.F.1.2

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Demonstrate phonological awareness.
  1. Blend and segment syllables in spoken words.
  2. Identify and produce alliterative and rhyming words. 
  3. Blend and segment onset and rimes of single-syllable words. 
  4. Identify the initial, medial, and final sound of spoken words. 
  5. Add or delete phonemes at the beginning or end of a spoken word and say the resulting word. 
  6. Segment and blend phonemes in single-syllable spoken words. 

Clarifications

Clarification 1: Phonological awareness only refers to what can be done orally at the syllable, onset-rime, and phoneme levels. It does not involve print or letter knowledge.
General Information
Subject Area: English Language Arts (B.E.S.T.)
Grade: K
Strand: Foundational Skills
Standard: Learning and Applying Foundational Reading Skills
Date Adopted or Revised: 08/20
Status: State Board Approved

Related Courses

This benchmark is part of these courses.
5010020: Basic Skills in Reading-K-2 (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2021, 2021 - 2024, 2024 and beyond (current))
5010030: Functional Basic Skills in Communications-Elementary (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2022, 2022 - 2024, 2024 and beyond (current))
5010041: Language Arts - Kindergarten (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2021, 2021 - 2024, 2024 and beyond (current))
7710011: Access Language Arts - Kindergarten (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2018, 2018 - 2022, 2022 and beyond (current))
5010022: Functional Reading Skills K-2 (Specifically in versions: 2021 - 2024, 2024 and beyond (current))
5010026: Functional Reading Skills 3-5 (Specifically in versions: 2021 - 2024, 2024 and beyond (current))
5010011: English for Speakers of Other Languages Kindergarten (Specifically in versions: 2021 and beyond (current))

Related Access Points

Alternate version of this benchmark for students with significant cognitive disabilities.
ELA.K.F.1.AP.2a: Blend and segment syllables in spoken words.
ELA.K.F.1.AP.2b: Identify and produce alliterative and rhyming words.
ELA.K.F.1.AP.2c: Blend and segment onset and rimes of single-syllable words.
ELA.K.F.1.AP.2d: Identify the initial, medial and final sound of spoken words.
ELA.K.F.1.AP.2e: Add or delete phonemes at the beginning or end of a spoken word and produce the resulting word using the student’s mode of communication.
ELA.K.F.1.AP.2f: Segment and blend phonemes in single-syllable spoken words.

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Lesson Plans

The Star-Spangled Banner: Do They Rhyme?:

This is lesson #2 in the text unit series for The Star-Spangled Banner. As the text is read aloud, students will listen for rhyming words. After hearing the text, students will be presented with word pairs from the text. They will then practice making decisions by voting “yes” or “no" to tell whether the words are rhyming pairs. Students will work together to name another word(s) that rhymes with the words from the text. Civics content is integrated as the students vote to tell if the words are rhyming pairs and work together to make a decision as they name additional rhyming words.

This resource uses a book that is on the Florida Department of Education's reading list. This book is not provided with this resource.

Type: Lesson Plan

Do You Like Green Eggs and Ham?:

In this 5-day lesson, students will engage in a variety of activities using the beloved Dr. Seuss books, Green Eggs and Ham and Wacky Wednesday. Students will explain the roles of the author and illustrator of a story. They will identify rhyming words in the stories and produce additional words that rhyme. Students will answer text-dependent questions to complete a story map and sequencing graphic organizer about each story. Using the graphic organizers, students will retell the stories. Finally, students will choose their favorite Dr. Seuss book and write an opinion statement telling why the book is their favorite.

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Student Center Activities

Phonemic Awareness: Sound Changes:

In this activity, students will substitute specific sounds in words to create new words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonemic Awareness: Word Change:

In this activity, students will delete the second phoneme in an initial blend and select the picture that represents the new word.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonemic Awareness: Phoneme Swap:

In this activity, students will decide which phoneme has been changed by comparing two pictures.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonemic Awareness: Phoneme Position Sort:

In this activity, students will sort pictures based on the location (initial, medial, final) of phoneme substitution.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonemic Awareness: Make It, Find It, Keep It:

In this activity, students will delete initial phonemes in words and select the picture that represents the new word. In an extension activity, students can segment and count the phonemes in each word and sort by the number of phonemes.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonemic Awareness: Final Phoneme Pie:

In this activity, students will delete final phonemes in words and select the picture that represents the new word.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonemic Awareness: What's Left?:

In this activity, students will delete initial phonemes in words and select the picture that represents the new word.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonemic Awareness: Break and Make:

In this activity, students will segment and blend phonemes to make words by playing a picture card game.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonemic Awareness: Phoneme Split and Say:

In this activity, students will segment and blend phonemes in words using Elkonin boxes.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonemic Awareness: Phoneme Challenge:

In this activity, students will segment phonemes in words by playing a counting game.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonemic Awareness: The Phoneme Game:

In this activity, students will segment and count phonemes in words while playing a board game.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonemic Awareness: Phoneme Counting Sort:

In this activity, students will segment and count phonemes in words and sort by number.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonemic Awareness: What's My Word?:

In this activity, students will blend phonemes in words and select the corresponding picture.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonemic Awareness: Phoneme Quest:

In this activity, students will isolate initial, medial, and final phonemes by comparing pictures.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonemic Awareness: Medial Phoneme Find:

In this activity, students will isolate medial phonemes by listening to words and choosing a picture that has the same medial sound.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonemic Awareness: Final Phoneme Find:

In this activity, students will isolate final phonemes by listening to words and choosing pictures with the same ending sound.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonemic Awareness: Bag-of-Sounds:

In this activity, students will identify initial phonemes in words represented by objects. As an extension, students may also identify the medial and final phonemes.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonemic Awareness: Vowel Picture Sort:

In this activity, students will sort pictures based on vowel sounds (long and short).

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonemic Awareness: Medial Phoneme Dominoes:

In this activity, students will match medial phonemes by playing dominoes.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonemic Awareness: Final Phomeme Spin:

In this activity, students will match final phonemes by playing a spinner game.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonemic Awareness: Match Maker:

In this activity, students will identify initial phonemes to match picture cards.

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: Make a Match:

In this activity, students will match initial sounds to letters while playing a timed memory game.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Make-A-Word:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Word Maker Game:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Word Roll-A-Rama:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Change-A-Word:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Word Swat:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Rime Closed Sort:

In this activity, students will sort words by rimes.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Say It Now:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Picture the Word:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

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.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Name Changes:

In this activity, the student will manipulate phonemes in words by substituting initial, medial, or final sounds to create a new word.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Drop and Say:

In this activity, the student will manipulate phonemes in words by deleting the beginning or ending sound to create a new word.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Picture Slide:

In this activity, the student will segment and blend phonemes in words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Treasure Chest:

In this activity, the student will segment and blend phonemes in words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Feud:

In this activity, the student will segment phonemes in words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Sound Spin:

In this activity, the student will segment phonemes in words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: The Sound Game:

In this activity, the student will segment phonemes in words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Hopscotch:

In this activity, the student will segment phonemes in words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Closed Sort:

In this activity, the student will segment phonemes in words and sort the words (picture cards) based on the number of phonemes. As an extension activity, the student can also sort picture cards based on the number of syllables in the word.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Photos:

In this activity, the student will segment phonemes in words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Say and Slide Phonemes:

In this activity, the student will segment phonemes in words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Sound Quest:

In this activity, the student will isolate initial, final, and medial phonemes in words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Move and Tell:

In this activity, the student will isolate medial phonemes in words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: The Last Sound Is...:

In this activity, students will use final sound clues to identify objects.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: See It – Sound It:

In this activity, the student will identify initial phonemes in words. As an extension activity, students can also identify the final sound in words and count the syllables in each word.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Sound Pictures and Picture Puzzles:

In this activity, the student will match medial phonemes in words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Sound Bags:

In this activity, students will match medial phonemes in words. As an extension, students can also match objects with the same initial or final sounds. 

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Sound Pie:

In this activity, the student will match final phonemes in words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Final Sound Match-Up:

In this activity, the student will match final phonemes in words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Sound It–Bag It:

In this activity, the student will match initial phonemes in words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Dominoes:

In this activity, the student will match initial phonemes in words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Go Fish:

In this activity, the student will match initial phonemes in words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Pack-A-Backpack:

In this activity, the student will match initial phonemes in words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Sound Train:

In this activity, the student will match initial phonemes in words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Sound Snacker - Sound Smacker:

In this activity, the student will match initial phonemes in words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Guessing Game:

In this activity, the student will manipulate onsets and rimes in words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Sound Detective:

In this activity, the student will segment and blend onsets and rimes in words. The student will also match rimes by identifying rhyming words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Rime House:

In this activity, students will segment and blend onsets and rimes in words. They will also match words with the same rime (rhyming words).

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Quick Pick:

In this activity, the student will segment and blend onsets and rimes in words. As an extension, the student will produce a rhyming word to match the picture.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Syllable Say:

In this activity, the student will segment and blend syllables in words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Syllable Graph:

In this activity, the student will segment syllables in words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Syllable Hopscotch:

In this activity, the student will segment syllables in words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Feed the Animals:

In this activity, the student will segment syllables in words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Clapping Names:

In this activity, the student will segment syllables in words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Sentence Graph:

In this activity, the student will segment sentences into words. This skill is typically taught prior to the segmentation of syllables. To fully align to the standard, this activity will need to be extended to include the segmentation of each word in the sentence into syllables.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Sentence Game:

In this activity, the student will segment sentences into words. This skill is typically taught prior to the segmentation of syllables. To fully align to the standard, this activity will need to be extended to include the segmentation of each word in the sentence into syllables.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Nursery Rhymes:

In this activity, the student will segment sentences into words. This skill is typically taught prior to the segmentation of syllables. To fully align to the standard, this activity will need to be extended to include the segmentation of each word in the sentence into syllables.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Rhyme Flip Book:

In this activity, the student will recognize and produce rhyming words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Rhyming Game:

In this activity, the student will recognize rhyming words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Rhyme Memory Match:

In this activity, the student will recognize and match rhyming words. As an extension activity, the student will match words based on initial sounds.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Rhyme Pie:

In this activity, the student will recognize rhyming words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Rhyme Closed Sort:

In this activity, the student will identify rhyming words by completing a closed sort. As an extension activity, the student will complete a closed sort based on initial sounds.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Pocket Rhymes:

In this activity, the student will recognize rhyming words. As an extension, the student can segment the onset and rime of matching pairs.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Rhyming A-LOT-OH!:

In this activity, the student will recognize rhyming words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: Rhyme or No Rhyme:

In this activity, the student will recognize rhyming words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness:Rhyme or no Rhyme:

In this activity, the student will recognize rhyming words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonological Awareness: One Card Out:

In this activity, the student will match initial phonemes in words.

Type: Student Center Activity

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