3.2.A.vi
The Standard
decoding words using knowledge of suffixes, including how they can change base words such as dropping e, changing y to i, and doubling final consonants
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for English Language Arts and Reading · The student develops word structure knowledge through phonological awareness, print concepts, phonics, and morphology to communicate, decode, and spell.
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students split a word into its base word and suffix, then read the whole word. They recognize base words even when letters change before a suffix.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students accurately read words such as hoping, carried, and running. They identify the base word and suffix, then explain the spelling change used.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may simply attach a suffix and produce hopeing, carryed, or runing. They may also miss the base word in changed forms such as carried or running.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Have students read hoping, carried, running, hopeful, played, and fastest aloud. Ask them to underline each base word and name any spelling change.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give students letter tiles to build hope, carry, and run, then add suffix tiles and make the needed spelling changes.
Ask students to explain in writing why hoping, carried, and running do not keep their base words unchanged.
Play a suffix relay where teams match base-word cards to correctly spelled forms such as baked, happier, and swimming.
Have students find suffixed words in a class newsletter, underline each base word, and read the full words to a partner.
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Related Standards
- 4.2.B.vi
spelling words using knowledge of suffixes, including how they can change base words such as dropping e, changing y to i, and doubling final consonants; and
- 4.2.A.v
The 4th Grade version of this standard.
- 3.2.B.vii
spelling words using knowledge of suffixes, including how they can change base words such as dropping e, changing y to i, and doubling final consonants;
- 5.2.B.vi
spelling words using knowledge of suffixes, including how they can change base words such as dropping e, changing y to i, and doubling final consonants; and
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