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 7 Introduction to Sound Options; Contractions

7.1 I can read and spell words with sound option for c when followed by e, i, y (city, space) and g when followed by e, i, y (gentle, page); Latin-base element

7.2 I can read and spell words with a consonant followed by a ge or ce (fence, challenge), trigraph dge (bridge), and with the Latin base element -vince- (convince).

7.3 I can read and spell words with trigraph tch (match) and digraph ph (phone); Greek combining forms that occur either at the beginning or end of a word (photograph, telephoto); vowel shifts

7.4 I can read and spell words with final stable syllable containing the noun forming suffix -ion: tion, sion (subtraction, instruction)

7.5 I can read and spell contractions (we've, I'll)