ELA21.3.32c

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

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.

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.

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