Your child should be able to statements: Kindergarten

The ELA CCSS can be a challenge for teachers and very confusing for parents. Work at the Canyon Effect is aimed at demystifying the standards with parents as the primary audience. Included is work from the phonics and word recognition standards of ELA CCSS Kindgarten. Through color coding and breaking educationese into parent friendly language, it is our belief that parents CAN understand the standards and help school with student mastery in a meaningful way.

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RF.1.3: Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.	Your child should be able to:
a.Demonstrate basic knowledge of letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary or most frequent sound for each consonant.	Make the most often heard (major) and other (minor) sounds for specific letters such as "k" and "s" for the letter c.
b. Associate the long and short sounds with the common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels.	Make long and short sounds for vowels. (a,e,I,o,u) and uses the right vowel when spelling short words.
c. Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does).	Read words that are used greatly such as the, of, to, you, she, my,is, are, do and does.
d. Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ.	Know how words such as cow, now, and how are alike and different.