English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 3

ELA21.3.32c

Encode words with two and three letter blends and previously taught digraphs, trigraphs, combinations, diphthongs, quadrigraph eigh, vowel y, hard and soft c and g, silent letter combinations, and contractions.

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Knowledge

  • Two letter blends are a combination of two consonants in which each represents a phoneme sound.
  • Three letter blends are a combination of three consonants in which each represents a phoneme sound.
  • Digraphs are two letter combination that represents a single phoneme sound in which neither letter represents its usual sound.
  • Trigraphs are three letter combinations that represents a single phoneme sound.
  • Combinations are two letters that frequently appear together and have an associated phoneme.
  • Diphthongs are two vowels that represent a single vowel phonemes that glide in the middle.
  • Quadrigraph eigh is a combination of four letters that represents a single phoneme sound.
  • The letter y can represent three different vowel sounds depending on the number of syllables in the words and its position in a word.
  • The spelling generalizations associated with hard and soft c and g.
  • Silent letter combinations are letter combinations in which one or more letters is silent (does not represent a phoneme), but another letter does represent the phoneme.
  • Contractions are words that are combined, or shortened, and an apostrophe represents the omitted letters.

Skills

  • Accurately encode words with previously taught letter patterns, such as two letter blends, three letter blends, digraphs, trigraphs, combinations, diphthongs, quadrigraph eigh, vowel y, hard and soft c and g, silent letter combinations, and contractions.

Understanding

  • Knowing the sound-symbol correspondences of common letter patterns will help them encode (spell/write) words accurately.

Vocabulary

  • Encode
  • Two letter blends
  • Three letter blends
  • Digraphs
  • Trigraphs
  • Combinations
  • Diphthongs
  • Quadrigraph eigh
  • Hard and soft c
  • Hard and soft g
  • Silent letter combinations
  • Contractions
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