LAFS.2.RF.3.3Archived Standard

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Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
  1. Distinguish long and short vowels when reading regularly spelled one-syllable words.
  2. Know spelling-sound correspondences for additional common vowel teams.
  3. Decode regularly spelled two-syllable words with long vowels.
  4. Decode words with common prefixes and suffixes.
  5. Identify words with inconsistent but common spelling-sound correspondences.
  6. Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
General Information
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Grade: 2
Strand: Reading Standards: Foundational Skills (K-5)
Idea: Level 1: Recall
Cluster: Phonics and Word Recognition
Date Adopted or Revised: 12/10
Content Complexity Rating: Level 1: Recall - More Information
Date of Last Rating: 02/14
Status: State Board Approved - Archived

Related Courses

This benchmark is part of these courses.
5010010: English for Speakers of Other Languages-Elementary (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2022 (course terminated))
5010020: Basic Skills in Reading-K-2 (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2021, 2021 - 2024, 2024 and beyond (current))
5010043: Language Arts - Grade Two (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2021, 2021 - 2024, 2024 and beyond (current))
7710013: Access Language Arts - Grade 2 (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2018, 2018 - 2022, 2022 and beyond (current))

Related Access Points

Alternate version of this benchmark for students with significant cognitive disabilities.

Related Resources

Vetted resources educators can use to teach the concepts and skills in this benchmark.

Student Center Activities

Fluency: Read Speed:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: Give Me Five:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: Word Part Rush:

In this activity, students will quickly read word parts (syllables, affixes, and roots) on a practice sheet in a timed activity.

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: Speedy Syllables:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Advanced Phonics: Embellished Words:

In this activity, students will combine base words and affixes to make new words while playing a board game.

Type: Student Center 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.

Type: Student Center Activity

Advanced Phonics: Sound Choice:

In this activity, students will decode and spell words containing vowel diphthongs while playing a board game.

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: Pick-A-Part:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: Syllable Speed Practice:

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

Type: Student Center 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 .

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: Affix Wiz:

In this activity, students will quickly read affixes on a practice sheet in a timed activity. As an extension, students will read multisyllabic words containing common affixes.

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: Word Part Race:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

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.

Type: Student Center Activity

Advanced Phonics: Affix Fit:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Advanced Phonics: Four Word:

In this activity, students will group multisyllabic words containing the same base word.

Type: Student Center Activity

Advanced Phonics: Affix Sort:

In this activity, students will sort words based on their affixes.

Type: Student Center Activity

Advanced Phonics: Syllable Swap:

In this activity, students will match syllable cards to create words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Advanced Phonics: Syllable Sort:

In this activity, students will sort words by syllable types.

Type: Student Center Activity

Advanced Phonics: The Write Word:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

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.

Type: Student Center Activity

Advanced Phonics: Star Search:

In this activity, students will decode and spell words with r-controlled vowel patterns.

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: Word Speed Practice:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: Word Sprint:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Fluency: Pass the Word:

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

Type: Student Center 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 .

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Word Construction:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Base Word Sort:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Front or Back:

In this activity, students will add affixes to base words to make new words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Affix Hunt:

In this activity, students will identify base words and affixes (prefixes and suffixes).

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Compound Concentration:

In this activity, students will form compound words.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Syllable Share:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Syllable Trivia:

In this activity, students will identify syllable patterns by playing a game.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Parting Words:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Covering the Bases:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Word Plus:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Six-Way Syllable Sort:

In this activity, students will sort words by syllable types.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Map and Swoop:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Syllables, Words, and Pictures:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Sight and Sound Scout:

In this activity, students will match vowel diphthong patterns by playing a board game.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Diphthong-O:

In this activity, students will identify vowel diphthongs by playing a bingo-type game.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Spell and Sort:

In this activity, students will identify vowel digraphs by completing a spell and sort activity.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Syllable Cut-Ups:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Syllable Snake:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Syllable Scoops:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Say and Spell:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Word Concentration:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Jumping Words:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Map-A-Word:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Roll and Read:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Vowel Digraph Baseball:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Fishing for Vowel Digraphs:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Same but Different:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Word Crazy:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

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.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Break Apart:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Prefix and Suffix Flip Book:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Inflection Toss:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Compound Word Puzzles:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Word Syllable Game:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Syllable Closed Sort:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Piece It Together:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Picture It In Syllables:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

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.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Flip Manipulating Books:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Vowel Slide:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: Canned Sort:

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

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

Phonics: Letter-Sound Folder Sort:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

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.

Type: Student Center Activity

Phonics: How Many Words?:

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

Type: Student Center Activity

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Student Center Activity

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.

Type: Student Center Activity