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Unpacked Content
Knowledge
- Graphemes can represent more than one sound.
- Graphemes represent some sounds more often than other sounds.
Skills
- Decode and encode words that contain graphemes that represent multiple sound-symbol correspondences, using their knowledge of the most common and least common sound-symbol correspondence; for example, y can be read /y/ in yet, /ē/ in candy, /ī/ in fly.
Understanding
- Knowing that some graphemes represent multiple sounds strengthens their phonics skills so they are able to readily read and spell words that are both common and not common.
Vocabulary
- Decode
- Encode
- Graphemes
- Sound-Symbol correspondences
- Apply
- Knowledge
- Most common frequency
- Least common frequency
