Step 2: Wilson Reading System

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.

2.1 I can identify, read and spell real and nonsense words with welded sounds for the graphemes ang, ing, ong, ung, ank, ink, onk, unk (Ex: bang, pink)

I can read and spell real and nonsense basewords with the suffix -s (Ex: kings)

2.2 I can read and spell real and nonsense words with four sounds in a closed syllable, adding suffix -s or -es (Ex: flag, steps, brushes)

2.3 I can read and spell real words with the closed syllable exceptions ild, ind, old, ost, olt (Ex: mold, host)

2.4 I can and spell real and nonsense words with five sounds in a closed syllable, adding suffix -s or -es (Ex: spend, crafts, branches).

I can identify 15 common closed-syllable Latin-base elements (Ex: -rupt-, -sist-) and use my resources to identify their meaning.

2.5 I can read and spell real and nonsense words with three-letter blends and up to six sounds in a closed syllable, adding suffix -s or -es. (Ex: spend, crafts, branches)

I can identify an additional 15 common closed-syllable Latin-base elements (Ex: -duct-, -spect-) and use my resources to identify their meaning.