Decoding and phonics IEP goals

Phonological awareness through multisyllabic decoding, sequenced the way instruction is: sounds, then patterns, then words in text.

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Annual goal

By the annual review date, when given a spoken word, [Student] will produce a word that rhymes with it with 85% accuracy across 10 trials, as measured by weekly phonological awareness probes.

Benchmarks

  1. 1

    By the annual review date, when given a spoken word, [Student] will produce a word that rhymes with it with 45% accuracy across 10 trials, as measured by weekly phonological awareness probes.

  2. 2

    By the annual review date, when given a spoken word, [Student] will produce a word that rhymes with it with 60% accuracy across 10 trials, as measured by weekly phonological awareness probes.

  3. 3

    By the annual review date, when given a spoken word, [Student] will produce a word that rhymes with it with 70% accuracy across 10 trials, as measured by weekly phonological awareness probes.

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23 decoding and phonics goals

Each shown at an example present level and target.

Rhyme and syllable awareness

· percent accuracy

By the annual review date, when given a spoken word, [Student] will produce a word that rhymes with it with 85% accuracy across 10 trials, as measured by weekly phonological awareness probes.

Grades PreK, K–2 CCSS RF.K.2
Other ways to measure this
  • weekly phonological awareness probes
  • biweekly rhyme production tasks recorded on a data sheet

Phoneme segmentation

· rate over time

By the annual review date, when given spoken words, [Student] will say each sound in the word separately at 40 correct phonemes per minute, as measured by weekly phoneme segmentation fluency probes.

Grades PreK, K–2 CCSS RF.K.2
Other ways to measure this
  • weekly phoneme segmentation fluency probes
  • biweekly segmentation tasks scored on a data sheet

Phoneme blending

· percent accuracy

By the annual review date, when the teacher says the sounds of a word one at a time, [Student] will blend them and say the whole word with 90% accuracy across 10 words, as measured by weekly blending probes.

Grades PreK, K–2
Other ways to measure this
  • weekly blending probes
  • biweekly oral blending tasks recorded on a data sheet

Letter-sound correspondence

· a running total

By the annual review date, when shown letters in random order, [Student] will produce the correct sound for 26 letter sounds, as measured by a weekly letter-sound inventory.

Grades PreK, K–2 CCSS RF.K.3
Other ways to measure this
  • a weekly letter-sound inventory
  • biweekly sound production probes recorded on a data sheet

CVC words

· percent accuracy

By the annual review date, when shown consonant-vowel-consonant words in isolation, [Student] will decode them aloud with 90% accuracy across 20 words, as measured by weekly decoding probes.

Grades K–2 CCSS RF.1.3
Other ways to measure this
  • weekly decoding probes
  • biweekly word-list readings scored on a data sheet

Consonant blends and digraphs

· percent accuracy

By the annual review date, when shown words containing blends and digraphs, [Student] will decode them aloud with 90% accuracy, as measured by weekly phonics pattern probes.

Grades K–2
Other ways to measure this
  • weekly phonics pattern probes
  • biweekly decoding checks recorded on a data sheet

Long vowel patterns

· percent accuracy

By the annual review date, when shown words containing silent-e and vowel team patterns, [Student] will decode them aloud with 88% accuracy, as measured by weekly vowel pattern probes.

Grades K–2, 3-5 CCSS RF.2.3
Other ways to measure this
  • weekly vowel pattern probes
  • biweekly word-list readings scored with a key

R-controlled vowels

· percent accuracy

By the annual review date, when shown words containing r-controlled vowels, [Student] will decode them aloud with 90% accuracy across 20 words, as measured by weekly phonics probes.

Grades K–2, 3-5
Other ways to measure this
  • weekly phonics probes
  • biweekly decoding checks recorded on a data sheet

Syllable types

· percent accuracy

By the annual review date, when given multisyllabic words, [Student] will divide them into syllables and read each syllable type correctly with 85% accuracy, as measured by weekly syllable division tasks scored with a key.

Grades 3-5, 6-8 CCSS RF.3.3
Other ways to measure this
  • weekly syllable division tasks scored with a key
  • biweekly multisyllabic decoding probes

Prefixes and suffixes in decoding

· percent accuracy

By the annual review date, when shown words with common prefixes and suffixes, [Student] will read the whole word correctly with 88% accuracy, as measured by weekly affix probes.

Grades 3-5, 6-8 CCSS RF.4.3
Other ways to measure this
  • weekly affix probes
  • biweekly word reading tasks scored on a data sheet

Irregular high-frequency words

· a running total

By the annual review date, when shown irregularly spelled high-frequency words, [Student] will read 75 irregular words correctly on sight, as measured by a weekly word-list inventory.

Grades K–2, 3-5
Other ways to measure this
  • a weekly word-list inventory
  • biweekly flashcard probes recorded on a data sheet

Decoding in connected text

· percent accuracy

By the annual review date, when reading third-grade-level decodable text aloud, [Student] will apply taught phonics patterns with 92% accuracy, as measured by running records taken weekly.

Grades K–2, 3-5
Other ways to measure this
  • running records taken weekly
  • error analysis of biweekly oral readings

Encoding taught patterns

· percent accuracy

By the annual review date, when words containing taught phonics patterns are dictated, [Student] will spell them correctly with 85% accuracy, as measured by weekly dictation probes.

Grades K–2, 3-5
Other ways to measure this
  • weekly dictation probes
  • biweekly spelling inventories scored with a key

Word attack strategy use

· fading prompts

By the annual review date, when [Student] encounters an unfamiliar multisyllabic word, they will use a taught word-attack strategy to decode it with no adult prompting, as measured by a prompting-level data sheet kept during reading instruction.

Grades 3-5, 6-8
Other ways to measure this
  • a prompting-level data sheet kept during reading instruction
  • weekly observation records noting prompts given

Sound-symbol fluency

· rate over time

By the annual review date, when shown a mixed list of letters and digraphs, [Student] will produce 55 correct letter sounds per minute, as measured by weekly timed sound probes.

Grades K–2
Other ways to measure this
  • weekly timed sound probes
  • biweekly letter-sound fluency checks

Phoneme manipulation

· percent accuracy

By the annual review date, when asked to change one sound in a spoken word to make a new word, [Student] will produce the new word with 85% accuracy across 10 trials, as measured by weekly phoneme manipulation probes.

Grades K–2, 3-5
Other ways to measure this
  • weekly phoneme manipulation probes
  • biweekly oral tasks recorded on a data sheet

Compound words

· percent accuracy

By the annual review date, when shown compound words, [Student] will read each part and then the whole word with 92% accuracy, as measured by weekly word probes scored with a key.

Grades K–2, 3-5
Other ways to measure this
  • weekly word probes scored with a key
  • biweekly decoding tasks recorded on a data sheet

Older students decoding grade-level words

· percent accuracy

By the annual review date, when given a list of words drawn from ninth-grade-level course texts, [Student] will decode them aloud with 90% accuracy, as measured by biweekly course-vocabulary decoding probes.

Grades 6-8, 9-12
Other ways to measure this
  • biweekly course-vocabulary decoding probes
  • monthly word-list readings scored on a data sheet

Self-correcting decoding errors

· opportunities met

By the annual review date, when [Student] decodes a word incorrectly while reading aloud, they will reattempt it using a taught pattern in 4 of 5 observed opportunities, as measured by running records with self-correction noted.

Grades K–2, 3-5
Other ways to measure this
  • running records with self-correction noted
  • weekly observation records kept by the teacher

Reading unfamiliar names and proper nouns

· percent accuracy

By the annual review date, when reading sixth-grade-level text containing unfamiliar proper nouns, [Student] will attempt each one using syllable division rather than skipping it, with 80% accuracy, as measured by annotated oral reading records.

Grades 3-5, 6-8
Other ways to measure this
  • annotated oral reading records
  • weekly observation records scored against a checklist

Vowel team discrimination

· percent accuracy

By the annual review date, when shown word pairs that differ only in their vowel team, [Student] will read both words correctly with 88% accuracy, as measured by weekly minimal-pair probes.

Grades K–2, 3-5
Other ways to measure this
  • weekly minimal-pair probes
  • biweekly discrimination tasks recorded on a data sheet

Decoding stamina in text

· time on task

By the annual review date, [Student] will read decodable third-grade-level text aloud for 12 minutes while maintaining taught phonics patterns, as measured by timed oral reading sessions logged weekly.

Grades K–2, 3-5
Other ways to measure this
  • timed oral reading sessions logged weekly
  • teacher-collected reading records

Spelling generalizations

· percent accuracy

By the annual review date, when dictated words requiring a taught spelling generalization such as doubling or dropping a final e, [Student] will spell them correctly with 85% accuracy, as measured by weekly dictation probes scored with a key.

Grades 3-5, 6-8
Other ways to measure this
  • weekly dictation probes scored with a key
  • biweekly spelling assessments recorded on a data sheet

Other skill areas

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Sources

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