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 5 Open Syllables

5.1 I can read and spell one-syllable open syllable words (go, hi); y as a vowel (shy); six open-syllable prefixes (co-, de-, e-, pre-, pro, re-)

5.2 I can read and spell words with open syllables combined with vowel-consonant-e and closed syllables in two-syllable words (student, locate); open-syllable prefixes added to stand-alone, simple base words (recall, defrost); open-syllable prefixes added to closed, and v-e Latin-based elements to form complex base words (predict, propose).

5.3 I can read and spell words with y as a vowel at the end of two-syllable words when combined with a closed syllable or another open syllable (empty, pony)

5.4 I can read and spell multisyllabic words, combining three syllable types: open, closed, vowel-consonant-e (volcano, regulate); prefixes added to multisyllabic base words with open, closed, and v-e syllables, including complex base words (copilot, disrespect)

5.5 I can read and write words with open syllable exceptions a and i n unaccented, open syllables, (Alaska, indicate);prefex a- added to simple base words (awake)