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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 escriben en una hoja de trabajo veinte palabras que les dicta el maestro. Al finalizar, encierran en un círculo las palabras esdrújulas. Revise la hoja de trabajo y haga comentarios a los estudiantes sobre su trabajo.


Further Explanation

Los estudiantes reconocen que las palabras esdrújulas son las que llevan la sílaba acentuada o tónica en la antepenúltima sílaba y que se siempre se acentúan.

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 that they did not intend, causing confusion for their reader.
The palabras esdrújulas are words with the stress on the third from last syllable. They are always spelled with an orthographic (written) accent. For example, pólvora, cálido, página, pirámide.
Signo gráfico o tilde que se usa para indicar si la sílaba donde se pone énfasis al pronunciar una palabra lleva acento escrito conforme a las reglas de acentuación (por ej., avión).
Estructura fundamental de la agrupación de fonemas en una lengua, basada en la combinación de vocales y consonantes que se produce en una sola emisión de voz; puede haber diferentes combinaciones de esas dos clases de fonemas, hay sílabas de una sola vocal (por ej., a, o) y otras formadas por una o dos consonantes seguidas de una vocal (por ej., tra, ve en atravesar).