PocketPhonics: Common Core Connections Monica Burns ClassTechTips.com August 2013

PocketPhonics PocketPhonics teaches students to recognize and write letters, recognize letter sounds, and identify sight words – building the foundation necessary for readers to become proficient. PocketPhonics: Common Core Connections

Reading Standards: Foundational Skills These standards are directed toward fostering students’ understanding and working knowledge of concepts of print, the alphabetic principle, and other basic conventions of the English writing system. These foundational skills are not an end in and of themselves; rather, they are necessary and important components of an effective, comprehensive reading program designed to develop proficient readers with the capacity to comprehend texts across a range of types and disciplines. Instruction should be differentiated: good readers will need much less practice with these concepts than struggling readers will. The point is to teach students what they need to learn and not what they already know—to discern when particular children or activities warrant more or less attention. PocketPhonics: Common Core Connections Common Core State Standards Initiative p.15

Direct Alignment to the Common Core State Standards, Reading Standards: Foundational Skills (K-5) PocketPhonics: Common Core Connections PocketPhonics directly supports student success in working towards mastery of the skills highlighted in bold

Direct Alignment to the Common Core State Standards, Reading Standards: Foundational Skills (K-5) PocketPhonics: Common Core Connections PocketPhonics directly supports student success in working towards mastery of the skills highlighted in bold

Evidence of Alignment to the Common Core State Standards, Reading Standards: Foundational Skills (K-5) STANDARD RF.K.2d Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in three- phoneme (consonant-vowel- consonant, or CVC) words.* (This does not include CVCs ending with /l/, /r/, or /x/.) PocketPhonics: Common Core Connections EVIDENCE Within all levels of PocketPhonics, students are asked to pronounce the sounds that will be combined to create CVC sight words.

Evidence of Alignment to the Common Core State Standards, Reading Standards: Foundational Skills (K-5) STANDARD RF.K.2e Add or substitute individual sounds (phonemes) in simple, one-syllable words to make new words. PocketPhonics: Common Core Connections EVIDENCE Students are given phonemes and must add individual sounds to make new words.

Evidence of Alignment to the Common Core State Standards, Reading Standards: Foundational Skills (K-5) STANDARD RF.1.2c Isolate and pronounce initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in spoken single-syllable words. PocketPhonics: Common Core Connections EVIDENCE Within all levels of PocketPhonics, students are asked to pronounce the sounds that will be combined to create single-syllable words.

Evidence of Alignment to the Common Core State Standards, Reading Standards: Foundational Skills (K-5) STANDARD RF.K.3a Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter- sound correspondences by producing the primary sound or many of the most frequent sounds for each consonant. PocketPhonics: Common Core Connections EVIDENCE Students are asked at each level of PocketPhonics to listen to and repeat the sounds associated with each letter.

Evidence of Alignment to the Common Core State Standards, Reading Standards: Foundational Skills (K-5) STANDARD RF.K.3c Read common high- frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does). PocketPhonics: Common Core Connections EVIDENCE At each level of PocketPhonics, students are asked to create common high-frequency words by combining letters; each word is accompanied by a picture that supports comprehension.

Evidence of Alignment to the Common Core State Standards, Reading Standards: Foundational Skills (K-5) STANDARD RF.1.3a Know the spelling-sound correspondences for common consonant digraphs. PocketPhonics: Common Core Connections EVIDENCE Students are introduced to the spellings and sounds of common consonant diagraphs.

PocketPhonics PocketPhonics supports early elementary school students as they build the foundation necessary to become proficient readers. The ability to recognize and write letters, recognize letter-sound associations, and identify sight words is essential for academic success. PocketPhonics by Apps in My Pocket Ltd directly aligns to the Common Core Reading Standards: Foundational Skills for students in Kindergarten and Grade 1. This app teaches Phonological Awareness and Phonics and Word Recognition and can be used by parents and teachers to support children developing early literacy skills. PocketPhonics: Common Core Connections