Phonics and Word RecognitionK.3 Know and apply grade-level phonics and wordanalysis skills in decoding words.a. Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-oneletter-sound correspondences by producingthe primary or many of the most frequentsound for each consonant.b. Associate the long and short sounds withcommon spellings (graphemes) for the fivemajor vowels.c. Read common high-frequency words by sight(e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does).d. Distinguish between similarly spelled words byidentifying the sounds of the letters that differ.