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 3 Closed Syllables (Multisyllabic Words)

3.1 I can read and spell two-syllable words with two closed syllables combined, no blends, including compound words (sunset, limit, publish, topic); schwa (wagon, method); and five closed syllable prefixes added to closed-syllable, three-sound words (misfed, unlock).

3.2 I can read and spell two-syllable words with two closed syllables, including blends (grandchild, problem). I can identify 12 additional closed-syllable prefixes added to simple words as well as 15 Latin-base elements taught in Substep 2.4 to form complex words with closed syllables (distrust, command)

3.3 I can read and spell words with two closed syllables ending in a ct blend (connect, district); closed-syllable prefixes added to 15 Latin-base elements with ct blend taught in Substep 2.5 to form complex words with closed syllables (conflict, object).

3.4 I can read and spell multisyllabic words, combining only closed syllables (basketball, establish); prefixes added to multisyllabic base words, including complex words (disconnect, subcontract).

3.5 I can read and spell unchanging base words with suffixes added (-ed, -ing) like shifted or expanding.