CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.5.3
The Standard
Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts · Reading Standards: Foundational Skills
What This Standard Means
Students need to read unfamiliar fifth-grade words by using patterns they know, not by guessing from the first letter. They should break longer words into syllables, notice prefixes and suffixes, use roots, and check whether the word makes sense in the sentence.
Mastery looks like a student stopping at a hard word, trying a strategy, and reading on with accuracy. Common sticking points are multisyllabic words, vowel teams, schwa sounds, Latin and Greek roots, and suffixes that change spelling. Some students can name a strategy but do not use it while reading real text.
Ways to Teach It
- Give pairs word cards like transportation, misjudged, and predictable, then have them cut the words into prefixes, roots, suffixes, and syllables.
- Ask students to write, “When I get stuck on a long word, I can…” and include two examples from today’s reading.
- Listen to each student read five unfamiliar multisyllabic words, then ask them to explain one decoding move they used.
- Bring in a sports article or menu and have students mark long words, then decode them using word parts.
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Related Standards
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.1.3
Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.3
Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.3.3
Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.4.3
Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.