Begin to combine letters into words. Will write words. Frequent opportunities to read common words in student's environment. Build words with moveable letters, student positions letters from left to right. Provide opportunities for experimental and creative writing.
Students write letters for the sounds they isolate in the words they write.
Discuss and provide examples of book concepts. Teacher observation, maintain portfolios of student work. Understand how words, phrases, sentences and paragraphs work. Understand sentence and story structure. Teacher guides students to build phrases, sentences and paragraphs both orally and in writing.