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 8 R-Controlled Syllables

8.1 I can read and spell words with r-controlled syllables identifying r-controlled vowels ar, er, ir, or, ur (firm, turn, barn); r-controlled Latin-bases (-fort-, -vert-, etc.); additional Greek combining form (therm, meter)

8.2 I can read and spell words with ar and or in multisyllabic words (market, orbit); combine new Latin-bases to other word elements to make a base word (comfort, divert); o connective

8.3 I can read and spell words with er, ir, and ur in multisyllabic words (circle, burden); adding prefixes with r-controlled vowels (superstar, overall)

8.4 I can read and spell words with r-controlled syllable exception: vowel followed by rr (carry, current); para (paradise); ar followed by one consonant (arid)

8.5 I can read and spell r-controlled syllable exception: ar, or in final syllable (dollar, favor); ard ward (standard, upward)