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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.

Modele cómo se pronuncian las sílabas trabadas, que son las sílabas que terminan con una consonante y pueden ser difíciles de pronunciar y de escribir (por ej., ar-ti-cu-la-ción, col-gar, ac-tuar). Proporcione una lista de palabras y los estudiantes deben subrayar las sílabas trabadas. Por parejas, los estudiantes se dictan uno al otro las palabras que contienen sílabas trabadas. Revise el trabajo en clase y comente con los estudiantes sus errores y aciertos.


Further Explanation

Los estudiantes demuestran y aplican sus conocimientos ortográficos para escribir correctamente las palabras con esas sílabas que terminan en consonante.

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 in Spanish, sílabas trabadas, also known as sílabas cerradas, are those syllables that end in a consonant, and use that knowledge to spell words correctly. The following are some examples of words that have sílabas trabadas, pas-tor, ar-go-lla, sa-lie-ron, mor-di-da, or a-mor.
Sílabas que terminan en consonante al final de una palabra (por ej., re-loj, man-tel, a-mor) o las que se forman mediante la unión de dos consonantes (por ej., ti-gre, cli-ma, pro-me-sa).