Virginia SOL 1.RV.1.E

ELA1st GradeReading and Vocabulary

The Standard

Determine the meaning of an unknown word using frequently occurring root words and inflectional affixes (e.g. -s, -ing, -ed).

Virginia Standards of Learning for English

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students find the familiar base word inside a longer word. They use endings such as -s, -ing, and -ed to work out meaning and time.
What Mastery Looks Like: Students separate a familiar base word from its ending. They use the base and the ending to explain the word’s meaning in a sentence.
Common Misconceptions: Students may treat the ending as part of an entirely new word. They may also confuse -ed with something happening now or miss that -s can mean more than one.
How to Assess It: Give students this sentence: “The dog jumped over the log.” Ask them to circle the base word in jumped and explain what -ed tells them.

Lesson moves

Give students word cards and ending tiles for -s, -ing, and -ed, then have them build words and act out each meaning.
Ask students to compare jump, jumps, jumping, and jumped, then write what changes in each word.
Play Ending Sort: students place word cards under -s, -ing, or -ed and earn a point for explaining each word.
Read a classroom schedule and find words such as reading, walked, or books, then discuss what each ending tells the reader.

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