Dearborn Educational Curriculum

Phonological Awareness: d. Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words.*(This does not include CVCs ending with /l/, /r/,or /x/.)

Phonological Awareness: Add or substitute individual sounds (phonemes) in simple, one-syllable words to make new words.

Phonics and Word Recognition: Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.

Phonics and Word Recognition: Demonstrate basic knowledge of letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary or most frequent sound for each consonant.

Phonics and Word Recognition: Associate the long and short sounds with the common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels.

Phonics and Word Recognition: Read common high-frequency words by sight. (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does).

Phonics and Word Recognition: Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ.

Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding.

Key Ideas and Details: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.

Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.