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

ELA21.K.10h

Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the phonemes and graphemes that differ.

COS Examples

Example: mat/sat, pan/pat, tip/top

Unpacked Content

Knowledge

  • How to identify the grapheme and/or phoneme that differs in similarly spelled words.

Skills

  • Identify the phonemes (sounds) and graphemes (letters) that differ in similarly spelled words. For example, in the word pair mat/sat, a student could identify the first letter changed which changed the word's first sound.

Understanding

  • There is a relationship between letters and sounds, and that changing a letter in a word changes how it is read.

Vocabulary

  • Distinguish
  • Phonemes
  • Graphemes
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