K-1st Phonemic Awareness, Letter Sounds, and Letter Recognition IEP Goals
Browse CCS aligned IEP goals for letter identification, letter sounds, and phonemic awareness for kinder and 1st grades. Find tips on how to make the goals work for your students!
IEP Goals for Letter Recognition and Letter Sounds
The Common Core has two kinder standards for identifying letters and letter sounds that are perfect for IEP goals.
Demonstrate basic knowledge of letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary or most frequent sound for each consonant CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.3a
After asking a student for letter names, ask them for letter sounds on whichever case (upper or lower) was easier for them.
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Lyanna knows 14 letter sounds.
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______ will demonstrate basic knowledge of letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary or most frequent sound for each consonant with 90% accuracy as measured by teacher records and observationsCCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.3a
Letter sounds are foundational for decoding and so I often focus on them for goals rather than letter names, but really both letter sounds and names are important so either works! The main thing you can modify for this goal is the benchmark for success– all letter or some, one on trial or across multiple trials.
- Change the number of sounds the student needs to know: ______ will demonstrate basic knowledge of letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary or most frequent sound for 20 of the 21 consonants as measured by teacher records and observationsCCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.3a
- Change how you measure the goal: ______ will demonstrate basic knowledge of letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary or most frequent sound for all of the consonants on three of four trials as measured by teacher records and observationsCCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.3a
Recognize and name all upper- and lowercase letters of the alphabet CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.1d
Provide the student with mixed-up alphabets in both lower and upper cases. I typically ask students for letter names on both cases .
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Tanea can identify 13 upper case and 9 lower case letters.
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_______ will recognize and name all upper- and lowercase letters of the alphabet with 90% accuracy as measured by teacher records and observations CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.1d
- Change the number the student needs to learn:
- ______ will recognize and name 48 of the 52 upper- and lowercase letters of the alphabet as measured by teacher records and observations CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.1d
- Specify just one case
- ______ will recognize and name all lowercase letters of the alphabet as measured by teacher records and observations CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.1d
- Change the measurement:
- ______ will recognize and name all upper- and lowercase letters of the alphabet on three of four trials as measured by teacher records and observations CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.1d
IEP Goals for Phonemic Awareness
The Common Core has phonemic awareness standards for Kinder and 1st grade that are perfect for phonemic awareness IEP goals.
Recognize and produce rhyming words CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.2a
- This is a purely oral assessment for students. The standard is for rhyming, which you can assess by having them rhyme words or, if they need more support, by choosing which of two sets of words rhyme.
Need more ideas? Check out the PreK-2 Reading Present Levels and Assessments Resource page.
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Sanchez can identify the beginning sound in a word with 80% accuracy, tell when two words rhyme with 60% accuracy, and identify the end sound in a word with 20% accuracy.
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- __________ will identify which sets of two words rhyme with 80% accuracy as measured by teacher records and observations CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.2a
The standard has both the recognition and production of rhyming words and so, for more advanced students, you can modify the phonemic awareness IEP goal to focus on their rhyming and for less advanced students, you can modify to focus on the recognition of rhyming words. You can also modify the percentage accuracy they need to reach to achieve the goal.
- Recognition of rhyming words
- _____ will identify which sets of two words rhyme with 80% accuracy as measured by teacher records and observations CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.2a
- Production of rhyming words
- Given a CVC word such as sat or ran and a model, _____ will provide two rhyming words on three of four trials as measured by teacher records and observations CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.2a
Isolate and pronounce initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in spoken single-syllable words CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.1.2c
- This is a purely oral assessment for students. One way to assess this is through Elkonin boxes, where a student breaks a word into sounds. Other ways include asking students what sound they hear at the beginning, the middle, and the end of a word.
Need more ideas? Check out the PreK-2 Reading Present Levels and Assessments Resource page.
Looking for assessment resources or support with turning assessments into goals and present levels? Check out the IEP Success Kit in the store!
Sanchez can identify the beginning sound in a word with 80% accuracy, tell when two words rhyme with 60% accuracy, and identify the end sound in a word with 20% accuracy.
For more baseline ideas, check out the IEP Success Kit!
- _____ will isolate initial and final sounds (phonemes) in spoken single-syllable words as demonstrated by correctly identifying beginning and ending sounds in words with 80% accuracy and as measured by teacher records and observations CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.1.2c
This standard focuses on the isolation of sounds in words. You can modify the phonemic awareness IEP goal by adjusting which sounds the student has to isolate and their percentage of accuracy.
- Changing the sounds isolated
- _____ will isolate initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in spoken single-syllable words with 80% accuracy as measured by teacher records and observations CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.1.2c
- _____ will isolate initial sounds (phonemes) in spoken single-syllable words with 80% accuracy as measured by teacher records and observations CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.1.2c
- Adjusting the accuracy and measurement
- _____ will isolate initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in spoken single-syllable words on three of four trials as measured by teacher records and observations CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.1.2c
