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 6 Suffix Ending (Unchanging Base Words) and Final Stable Syllable

6.1 I can read and spell unchanging basewords with suffix endings -able, -en, -er, -est, -ish, -or, -y, -ful, -less, -ly, -ment, -ness, -ty (smaller, suddenly)

6.2 I can read and spell unchanging basewords with the suffix -ed saying /t/ and /d/ (labeled, focused)

6.3 I can read and spell unchanging basewords combining two suffixes (constructively, helpfulness)

6.4 I can read and spell words with the final stable syllable: consonant-le and the stle exception, adding taught prefixes including suffix -s (simple, whistle, unstable, castles)