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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.

Diga en voz alta el sonido de una letra del alfabeto, primero en orden alfabético y después al azar. Los estudiantes escriben la letra que corresponde en su libreta y repiten el sonido varias veces. Observe y tome notas.
 

Further Explanation

Los estudiantes distinguen los distintos sonidos que tienen las letras del alfabeto y las escriben correctamente.

Both decoding and encoding skills are needed to build a foundation in reading. Decoding is the process of translating written speech into verbal speech sounds by applying knowledge of letter-sound correspondences. It is the ability to recognize letters, apply their associated sounds, and blend sounds to form words. Encoding is the process of using letter-sound knowledge to write or spell words. Students must understand the various spelling patterns and rules of the Spanish language to correctly construct words in their written products. It is important that students demonstrate their knowledge by applying these rules consistently instead of using invented spelling because they may unknowingly write a real word they did not intend, causing reader confusion.
Students should know that letters in Spanish correlate to one single sound, like s-/s/, d-/d/, a-/a/. However, some pairs of letters, known as digraphs, also express one sound. For example, the letters c + h make the digraph ch that always sound the same (/ch/) regardless of its position in words: chico, hacha, chorrito, Cochambamba. Another common correlation is represented by the digraph rr whose sound is always the same: arrozal, carretera, cascarrabias, or barril. Students should be aware of the potential confusion that may arise when words containing the digraph rr are misspelled. Consider the following example: La pera estaba tirada bajo la cama, así que tuvimos que sacarla para bañarla. The author probably meant perra (female dog) instead of pera (pear).