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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.

Después de explicar la actividad y dar algunos ejemplos, los estudiantes, divididos en equipos, escriben palabras en carteles que tengan como título las diversas combinaciones de vocales y consonantes. Los equipos tienen un banco de palabras en tarjetas. Escogen la tarjeta adecuada para cada cartel y la copian. Registre la participación de los estudiantes.
 

Further Explanation

Los estudiantes escriben palabras que contengan diferentes combinaciones de vocales y consonantes siguiendo patrones comunes. Primeramente, aprenden sobre patrones de dos letras y después patrones de más letras y diferentes combinaciones. Por lo tanto, amplían su vocabulario y aprenden las bases de su conocimiento ortográfico.

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 write words with common syllabic patterns such as monosyllabic words no, sí (CV) and al, un (VC). They should also be able to spell multisyllabic words with the patterns CCV such as tro-pa, blu-sa; CVC such as res-ta, ga-nar; VCV such as i-ra, a-la; CVCV such as ca-sa, pe-ro; CCVCV such as pla-to, bru-ma; and CVCCV such as dis-co, tos-ca.