Essential Questions:

• What is the importance of reading?

• What are the qualities of a good reader?

Common Core Standards:

• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.5.3 Know and apply grade level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.

• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.5.3a Use combined knowledge of all letter-sound correspondences, syllabication patterns, and morphology (e.g., roots and affixes) to read accurately unfamiliar multisyllabic words in context and out of context.

Step 1 Closed Syllables (3 sounds)

1.3 I can read read and spell real and nonsense words with three sounds, including digraphs. (Ex: wish, chop, wet)

1.4 I can read and spell real and nonsense words with three sounds including digraphs applying the doubling spelling rule for f, l, s, and sometimes z in the final position as well as the welded sound /all/. (Ex. off, bill, miss, buzz, call)

1.5 I can read and spell real and nonsense words with three sounds utlizing the nasalized welded sounds of /am/ and /an/. (Example: ham, fan)

1.6 I can read and spell read and nonsense unchanging three sound closed syllable basewords with the suffix -s and-es (bugs, chills, wishes, taxes).

I understand the concept of a word element, in this case suffixes -s and -es, and that they change the function of the word. In this case they make the word plural or mean "more than one".