ELA21.3.8d

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

ELA21.3.8d

Decode and encode words with graphemes that represent multiple sound-symbol correspondences by applying knowledge of most common to least common frequency.

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

COS Examples

Examples: y can be read /y/ in yet, /Ä“/ in candy, /Ä«/ in fly

digraph ch can be read /ch/ in chair, /sh/ in chef, and /k/ in school

diphthong ow is read /ou/ in cow, but digraph ow is read /ō/ in snow

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