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Knowledge and Skills Statement

Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--beginning reading and writing. The student develops word structure knowledge through phonological awareness, print concepts, phonics, and morphology to communicate, decode, and spell.

Task students with reading aloud from a research-based list of fifth-grade high-frequency words. Record the students' accuracy as they read.
 

Further Explanation

This requires students to identify high-frequency words and read them aloud. This knowledge is acquired through practice and experience with identifying and reading high-frequency words and is built upon as students becomes proficient with high-frequency words at lower grade levels.

When students demonstrate phonetic knowledge, they are not creating written content that incorporates an understanding of phonetic principles, but rather reviewing content and determining how the principles have been applied. Students will do this when decoding (reading) words they encounter in various formats from activities in the classroom to stories they read for pleasure.
High-frequency words are those words that appear frequently in written materials and that students are expected to recognize. High-frequency words can be decoded by students but often follow rules with which students may not be familiar or are exceptions to rules. Examples of fifth-grade high frequency words include privilege, separate, and government. Students should immediately recognize a high-frequency word as a whole without having to do a word analysis to read it.