South Dakota ELA 4.RF.3

4.RF.3 is a cluster heading. These are the individual standards under it.

• 4.RF.3.a

  Identify and use common prefixes, suffixes, and root words to decode and encode words.

• 4.RF.3.b

  Recognize and use common Greek and Latin roots to determine word meanings and decode unfamiliar words.

• 4.RF.3.c

  Apply knowledge of syllable division rules, morphemes, and phonics patterns to decode and encode multisyllabic words accurately.

• 4.RF.3.d

  Apply spelling patterns and rules to spell words accurately.

01

What Students Need to Do

Students read and spell longer words by breaking them into syllables and meaningful parts. They use prefixes, suffixes, Greek and Latin roots, and spelling patterns to work out unfamiliar words and meanings.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

A student reads and spells portable by finding port, meaning carry, and the suffix able. They split and spell transporting as trans/port/ing, then explain how port helps with its meaning.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may read long words one letter at a time instead of spotting familiar parts. They may spell portable as portible because they rely on sound alone, or think tele means sound instead of far.

04

How to Assess It

Give students photograph and portable. Have them divide the words into syllables, mark photo, port, and able, explain both roots, then cover the words and spell them from dictation.

1. 01

   Give pairs cards labeled photo, graph, port, re, and able; have them build real words, mark syllables, and explain each root.

2. 02

   Write two sentences explaining how knowing port means carry helps you read and spell portable and transport.

3. 03

   Give teams hope, hoping, hopeful, use, using, and useful; have them sort by whether adding the suffix drops final e, then spell each.

4. 04

   Show pictures labeled telescope and telephone; students find tele in both labels and write how distance connects the two objects.

• 2.RF.3

  Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding and encoding words.

• 3.RF.3

  Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding and encoding words.

• 5.RF.3

  Demonstrate mastery of grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding and encoding words.

• K.RF.3

  Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding and encoding words.