South Dakota ELA 5.RF.3.b

ELA5th GradeReading Foundational Skills

The Standard

5.RF.3: Demonstrate mastery of grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding and encoding words.

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

South Dakota English Language Arts Standards (2025)

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students find familiar Greek and Latin roots in longer words. They use those roots to read unfamiliar words aloud and work out their meanings.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student can read portable aloud and use port, meaning carry, to explain what it means. They can use tele, meaning far, to explain teleconference.
Common Misconceptions: Students may read port in portion as 'carry,' though those letters are not the carry root. They may define transport as just 'carry' and miss trans, meaning across. Some split portable into syllables but fail to notice port across the split.
How to Assess It: Give students portable and teleconference. Ask them to read each word to a partner, underline a root, and write how that root helps explain the word.

Lesson moves

Give pairs root cards for port and tele, plus word cards for portable, transport, telephone, and telescope, to sort and label.
Ask: How does port, meaning carry, help explain portable and transport? Have students write one sentence about each word.
Play a root relay: teams match port, dict, and tele to portable, predict, and telephone, then read and explain each word.
Show a portable charger label and a teleconference invitation; have students find the roots and explain what each item is for.

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