Phonics and Spelling Practice: Blends and Silent Letters
Student printable PDF, three pages | Teacher printable PDF, three pages. Dictation answers are only in the teacher edition. These are printable supplements, not fillable forms or state certification.
Reading and Spelling Skills Review
Download student printable supplement, 7 pages | Download teacher printable supplement, 7 pages. These are printable supplements. The independently audited final 30-page fillable workbooks are now available. These formative checks do not certify standards mastery.
Retired: The earlier student and teacher correction addenda are superseded by the approved final 30-page workbooks and are no longer offered for instruction. Use the final workbooks and approved printable supplements instead.
Academic quality-control status: Read the Standards 7 and 31 item-quality review. The current PDFs are supplemental formative checks; several objectives need additional independent items before comprehensive alignment can be claimed.
Final fillable assessment workbooks (independently audited)
Approved final 30-check fillable workbooks, November 12, 2026: Download final 30-page fillable student workbook (media 8645) and Download final 30-page fillable teacher workbook and key (media 8646). Both passed independent item and form review. Student v4 and Teacher v2 remain withdrawn. These workbooks provide targeted formative evidence, not proof of full standards mastery or certification. PDF reading-order tagging remains an accepted accessibility improvement.
Grade 1 ELA Standards 7 and 31: Corrected Evidence Crosswalk
This corrected lettered-objective checklist supersedes provisional labels in the earlier Ahava audit. It summarizes, rather than reproduces, the 2021 Alabama ELA Course of Study. Verify each precise objective in the official Alabama standards. Existing ten-check packets are useful formative samples but do not cover all lettered requirements.
Standard 7: Decoding, 15 lettered objectives
a: letter-sound knowledge and long/short vowels
b: syllable patterns and consonant blends
c: digraphs, trigraphs and qu
d: a after w and before l
e: hard/soft c and g
f: vowel y in different positions
g: r-controlled vowels
h: specified vowel teams and diphthongs
i: -ild, -old, -ost, -olt, -ind
j: six syllable types in two-syllable words
k: silent letters
l: eight common prefixes
m: suffixes and spelling changes
n: contractions
o: regularly decodable high-frequency words
Standard 31: Encoding, 15 lettered objectives
a: VC/CVC and spelling rules
b: open-syllable CV words
c: initial consonant blends
d: consonant digraphs
e: vowel-consonant-e
f: vowel teams and diphthongs
g: r-controlled vowels
h: final ch/tch
i: final doubled f/l/s
j: final /v/ spelled -ve
k: regularly spelled high-frequency words
l: irregular high-frequency spellings
m: inflectional endings
n: re-, un-, mis- prefixes
o: homophones in sentence context
Historical corrections and second-edition status
Status update, November 12, 2026: Student v4 and Teacher v2 fillable workbooks were withdrawn for revision after independent audit. They are not current assessment resources.
The original ten-check workbook contained an incorrect homophone target and incomplete high-frequency-word alignment. Those issues were flagged and the live exercise text was corrected. The final 30-page fillable workbooks provide one targeted formative check per lettered objective. They remain formative screening exercises, not exhaustive assessments or proof of mastery. The earlier Student v4 and Teacher v2 editions remain withdrawn and are retained only for historical reference.
Standards 7 and 31 Evidence Reconciliation
Method: All 15 lettered decoding objectives and all 15 lettered encoding objectives are individually cross-referenced against the academy’s corrected objective checklist and currently identified exercises. “Targeted evidence” means a relevant formative item exists, not that the entire objective is satisfied or any child has mastered it. “Needs item-level verification” means relevant workbook or lesson items may exist, but the crosswalk entry does not establish full objective-level depth or learner performance. The new workbook has passed a separate item-integrity review; this is not proof of full standards mastery. This reconciliation is not an independent certification against the full text of the official 2021 Alabama ELA Course of Study.
7a: S16 alphabet inventory, vowel contrasts. Partial: common sounds sampled, not all correspondences.
7b: Transfer Check T2 and Supplement Check S19 sample the 15 named blend patterns through reading and identification. Partial: fluency and mastery not established.
7c: S20, targeted decoding evidence for ck, sh, th, ch, wh, ph, ng, tch, dge and qu. All named patterns are sampled in reading; complete independent mastery remains unverified. The older workbook is withdrawn, and the final 30-check edition is independently reviewed.
7d: T3 wa/al. Partial.
7e: S11 hard/soft c and g. Targeted evidence.
7f: S11 vowel y. Targeted evidence.
7g: the vowel-sounds assessment, targeted evidence. R-controlled word reading and classification; this formative sample does not establish mastery.
7h: Supplement Check S17 samples 17 named vowel-spelling patterns in 18 reading words. Partial: one or two examples per pattern, not mastery.
7i: S12 five word families. Targeted evidence.
7j: T5 syllable types. Partial.
7k: Supplement Checks S12 and S18 sample kn, wr, mb, gh and gn. Targeted formative evidence.
7l: Supplement Checks S15 and S18 sample the eight named prefixes, including ex-. Partial: examples are not comprehensive mastery evidence.
7m: T7 suffix spelling changes. Partial.
7n: S14 contextual contractions. Targeted evidence.
7o: T8 and S14 connected text. Partial: automaticity and unseen transfer not fully established.
31a: the vowel-sounds assessment, targeted evidence. Six CVC short-vowel words dictated independently.
31b: the vowel-sounds assessment, targeted evidence. Six open-syllable CV words dictated in context.
31c: Transfer Check T2 and Supplement Check S19 provide dictated blend-word samples. Targeted evidence.
31d: S20, partial encoding evidence from nine dictated words sampling multiple consonant digraphs and trigraphs. ph is reading-only in S20, so S20 alone does not establish complete encoding coverage. The new final 30-check workbook provides additional formative items, but encoding depth and learner mastery remain unverified.
31e: the vowel-sounds assessment, targeted evidence. Six vowel-consonant-e words dictated independently.
31f: Supplement Check S17 dictates eight words from the vowel-pattern inventory. Partial: encoding depth and mastery not established.
31g: the vowel-sounds assessment, targeted evidence. Five r-controlled spelling words dictated in context.
31h: S13 catch and pitch. Targeted evidence.
31i: S13 off, bell, miss. Targeted evidence.
31j: S13 have, give, love. Targeted evidence.
31k: T8. Partial.
31l: T8. Partial.
31m: T7. Partial.
31n: S15 word building re-, un-, mis-. Targeted evidence.
31o: S13 full-sentence homophones. Targeted evidence.
Release conclusion: Numbering convention: the final workbook assessments = independently reviewed final 30-page fillable workbook checks; the earlier Student v4 and Teacher v2 remain withdrawn, not current public evidence. the original transfer checks = earlier transfer checks; S11-the vowel-sounds assessment = supplemental checks. All 30 lettered objectives are tracked, but no claim of 30 of 30 fully met, certification, or learner mastery is made. the vowel-sounds assessment adds targeted formative evidence for 7g, 31a, 31b, 31e and 31g. The final 30-page workbooks have been rebuilt and independently reviewed. Remaining work includes verifying encoding and vowel-pattern depth, independent learner evidence, reading-order tagging, and real-device PDF accessibility testing. The approved supplements are printable, not fillable.
Vowel Sounds and Spelling: Additional Skills Reviewed
The vowel-sounds assessment has been independently reviewed for the student/teacher answer separation and corrected teacher dictation context. Vowel Sounds Student PDF | Vowel Sounds Teacher PDF. Standard 7g reading and sorting (/20), plus Standard 31a, 31b, 31e and 31g dictated spelling (/23), total /43. Targeted formative evidence only, not full mastery or state certification.