Foundational Skills

Module 4

English Language Arts Common Core State Standards

Reading10 Anchor

Standards

Writing10 AnchorStandards

Speaking & Listening

6 AnchorStandards

Language6 Anchor

Standards

Foundational

Informational

Literary

Narrative

Opinion

ArgumentativeExplanatory

VocabularyOral

Language

WrittenLanguage

Foundational Skills

Students must have the foundational skills in order to read and comprehend

complex texts.

Foundational Skills

Common Core Foundational Skills do not include comprehension and vocabulary

Foundational Skills include: Print concepts Phonological awareness Phonics and word recognition Fluency

Foundational Skills

Acquiring comprehension and vocabulary skills is a 13-year process in the Common Core where one year builds on the next

In order for proper scaffolding, Foundational Skills must be firmly taught

Without Foundational Skills in place, students will have difficulty comprehending the increasingly more rigorous text and vocabulary

Foundational SkillsFocus on the development of student

understanding and the working knowledge of four key areas.

Foundational Skills

PrintConcepts

Understanding of what print

represents and how it works

Foundational SkillsFocus on the development of student

understanding and the working knowledge of four key areas.

Foundational Skills

PrintConcepts

Understanding of what print

represents and how it works

PhonologicalAwareness

Involves workingwith sentences,words, rhyme,syllables, and

sound

Foundational SkillsFocus on the development of student

understanding and the working knowledge of four key areas.

Foundational Skills

Phonics &Word

Recognition-Associates the

sounds of words to the spelling

-Applies phonics to word identification

PrintConcepts

Understanding of what print

represents and how it works

PhonologicalAwareness

Involves workingwith sentences,words, rhyme,syllables, and

sound

Foundational SkillsFocus on the development of student

understanding and the working knowledge of four key areas.

Foundational Skills

Phonics &Word

Recognition-Associates the

sounds of words to the spelling

-Applies phonics to word identification

FluencyThe ability to

read accurately, quickly,

effortlessly, andwith appropriate expression and

meaning

PrintConcepts

Understanding of what print

represents and how it works

PhonologicalAwareness

Involves workingwith sentences,words, rhyme,syllables, and

sound

Foundational SkillsFocus on the development of student

understanding and the working knowledge of four key areas.

Foundational Skills

Phonics &Word

Recognition-Associates the

sounds of words to the spelling

-Applies phonics to word identification

Fluency Able to

read accurately, quickly,

effortlessly, andwith appropriate expression and

meaning

PrintConcepts

Understanding of what print

represents and how it works

PhonologicalAwareness

Involves workingwith sentences,words, rhyme,syllables, and

sound

Foundational SkillsFocus on the development of student

understanding and the working knowledge of four key areas.

Print Concepts

Children need regular and active interactions with print to develop an understanding of how print works

Print Concepts include Concepts of Print Alphabetic Principle Basic Conventions of English

Concepts of Print

Understand the necessary foundational skills that facilitate learning to read and write at an independent level

Understand that the print (not the picture) tells the story

Includes Directionality Differences between letter, word and sentence Voice-Print matching Punctuation

Foundational Skills

Print Concepts

Grade K Grade 1

Phonological Awareness

Phonological Awareness, the ability to identify different sounds and then to connect those sounds to the letters of the alphabet, is the key to learning to read

Phonological Awareness is an umbrella term that involves working with sentences, words, rhyme, syllables and sounds

The objective is for students to be able to manipulate words, word parts, and sounds

Foundational Skills

Phonological Awareness

Grade K Grade 1

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Phonics and Word Recognition

Phonics instruction teach students the association between sounds of the language and the written symbols

The written symbols are a visual representation of speech sounds that we use to communicate

The application of phonics leads to word recognition

Foundational Skills

Phonics and Word Recognition

Grade K

Grade 3

Grade 2Grade 1

Grade 4 Grade 5

Fluency

Fluency is the ability to read or access words effortlessly with seemingly little attention to decoding

Fluency is also the ability to group words into meaningful units, utilize punctuation to guide the reader’s voice, and to use expression appropriately

Fluency also requires readers to adjust their reading rate as necessary

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Foundational Skills

Fluency

Grade K

Grade 3

Grade 2Grade 1

Grade 4 Grade 5

Foundational Skills

Phonological Awareness

Grade K Grade 1

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