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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.

Los estudiantes trabajan en equipos. Reciben tarjetas con palabras terminadas en “z” y sus plurales. Algunas de las tarjetas que contienen los plurales están escritas incorrectamente, como lápiz/ lápizes o lombriz/ lombrizes. Los estudiantes tienen que poner en parejas las tarjetas con el plural que esté escrito correctamente. Posteriormente, dicte 10 palabras y que los estudiantes las escriban. Deben añadir a cada palabra su plural. Revise su trabajo y compruebe que escribieron correctamente los plurales de 8 de las 10 palabras.


Further Explanation

Los estudiantes demuestran su conocimiento de la ortografía al escribir correctamente la forma plural de las palabras que terminan en la letra z.

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 are expected to use orthographic rules to spell words correctly. They should know that singular nouns ending in -z change their ending to -ces in the plural form. For example, lápiz – lápices, avestruz – avestruces, feliz – felices, and codorniz – codornices.