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Child Opportunities and K-3

• to grasp and master the alphabetic principle in reading and writing (continued)

• independent readers

  • encourage children to sound out and confirm the identities of visually unfamiliar words they encounter in the course of reading meaningful text

• writing

  • children write letters, then words, then sentences
  • use of invented spelling
  • focused instruction in conventionally correct spelling (primary grade children should be expected to spell previously studied words and spelling patterns correctly in their final writing products)

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