Alignment of DRA2 Word Analysis Tasks to FCRR Phonics and Phonological Awareness Activities Tasks 1-28
Task
1 , 13
Distinguishing pictured rhyming words
Reading Element
Phonological Awareness
Concepts about Print
Related FCRR Activities
K-1 Phonological Awareness Activities
RHYME
PA.001-009
K-1 Phonological Awareness Activities
Phoneme Isolation
PA.036
n/a
2, 3, 11
Distinguishing initial sounds of pictured
words
4, 7
Understanding words used to talk about
printed language concepts
5&6
Recognizing Capital and Lower Case Letters
Phonological Awareness
(Alphabet Knowledge) Print
Concepts & Phonics
K-1 Letter Recognition Activities
P.001-011
8
Segmenting words into sentences.
Phonological Awareness
9, 17, 22
Recognizing High Frequency Words
Phonics
(irregular words)
10
Spelling two letter words
12, 21
Blending and segmenting phonemes (single
sounds) into words
14, 19, 23
Segmenting words into onsets and
rimes/providing words that begin with the
same sound
15
Deleting onsets
Phonics (encoding-spelling)
K-1 Phonological Awareness Activities
Sentence Segmentation
PA.013-015
K-1 Phonics
High Frequency Words
P.041-046
N/A
16
Spelling three letter words with short vowels
Phonics
18
Segmenting words into syllables
Phonological Awareness
20, 24
Deleting or substituting final sounds
Phonological Awareness
25
Blending and using initial consonant sounds
Phonics
26
Identifying words with long and short vowels
Phonics
27
Spelling Check (this is a review of many skills
including vce patterns, preconsonant nasals,
initial digraphs and suffixes.
Task 28
Using structural analysis to determine word
meaning
Phonics
Phonological Awareness
Phonological Awareness
Phonological Awareness
Phonics (vocabulary via
morphemic analysis)
K-1 Phonological Awareness Activities
Phoneme Segmenting and Blending
PA.040 -048
K-1 Phonological Awareness Activities
Onset and Rime
PA.021 - 024
K-1 Phonological Awareness Activities
Phoneme Manipulation
PA.049
K-1 Phonics Activities
Encoding/Decoding
P.034-039
K-1 Phonological Awareness Activities
Syllables
PA.016-020
K-1 Phonological Awareness Activities
Phoneme Isolation
PA.037-050
K-1 Phonics Activities
Variant Correspondences
P.050
K-1 Phonics Activities
Variant Correspondences
P.047-052
This is a review of many skills – no one FCRR
activity or section addresses these all in one.
K-1 Phonics Activities
Morpheme Structures
P.058-060
Alignment of DRA2 Word Analysis Tasks to FCRR Phonics and Phonological Awareness Activities 29-40
Task
29
Recognizing high frequency words
Reading Element
Phonics
Irregular Word Reading
Related FCRR Activities
2-3 Phonics
High Frequency Words
P.008-011
30
Substituting Rimes
Student reads words in sets of 6 with similar
onsets (digraphs/blends) but different
ending rimes.
31, 32
Using analogies to decode words
Identifying words with vowel patterns
Phonics
2-3 Phonics
Letter-Sound Correspondence (words with
beginning digraphs and blends)
P.001-007
Phonics
2-3 Phonics
Variant Correspondences
P.012 through P.028
33, 34, 35, 37, 38, 39
Blending and using initial syllables
Phonics
2-3 Phonics
Syllable Patterns
P.029-P.036
Segmenting words into syllables II & III
May also need to refer back to K-1
Phonological Awareness FCRR Task PA.016-20
Using structural analysis to determine word
meaning (suffixes II)
Morpheme Structures
P.037-P.044
Using structural analysis to determine word
meaning (prefixes)
Using structural analysis to determine word
meaning (suffixes III)
36, 40
Spelling Check IV and V
Phonics
These are combination spelling checks that
address many of the combined skills
represented among FCRR activities. There is
no one FCRR activity that addresses all the
skills assessed in these spelling checks.
Table of Contents FCRR Grades 4-5 (on grade level) Phonics Activities:
4-5 Advanced Phonics
Variant Correspondences
AP.001-007
Syllable Patterns
AP.008-013
Morpheme Structures
AP.014-022
4-5 Fluency
Word Parts/Words
F.001-008
Phrases/Chunked Text
F.009-013
Connected Text
F.014-024
The FCRR.org website also has vocabulary and comprehension activities grades K-5.