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Phonics PLUS C emphasizes word study via content area vocabulary, while reviewing and expanding upon concepts covered in Level B. Students apply skills to a variety of reading passages, including poems, plays, informational text, and selections that feature the recurring characters of Roberto, Mei, Jamal, and Sue—third grade students.
Grade 3
Phonological Awareness
- Identifying initial, final and medial consonants and vowels
- Segmenting and blending phonemes
- Recognizing and producing rhyme
- Syllables
- Identifying and blending onset and rime
Phonics
- Sound-to-symbol correspondence
- Blending phonemes
- Consonants (initial and final)
- Digraphs and blends (initial and final)
- Short and long vowels
- Vowel digraphs and diphthongs
- r-controlled vowels; y- as a vowel; schwa
- Silent letters
- Word families
- CVC, CVVC and CVCe words
- Decoding multisyllabic words
- Spelling
- Words ending in –le
- Infelctional endings
Alphabet Awareness
- Alphabetizing (2nd and 3rd letter)
Concepts of Print
Writing
- Words and sentences
- Stories and poems
- Book reports
- Point of view
Fluency
- Automaticity practice
- Repeated readings
- Read-alouds
- Choral reading
- Partner reading and Reader’s Theater
Vocabulary and Word Analysis
- Using picture and context clues
- High frequency words
- Homophones
- Plural endings, base words
- Prefixes and suffixes
- Compound words
- Open and closed syllables
- Multisyllabic words
- Possessives
- Synonyms and antonyms
- Shades of meaning/multiple meanings
- Latin and Greek roots
- Irregular past tense verbs
Comprehension
- Context clues
- Think-alouds and visualization
- Sequencing and predicting
- Following directions
- Literal recall and retelling
- Story structure: beginning-middle-end
- Critical thinking
- Analogies
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