Fifth Grade Scope and Sequence for Word Study Revised June 2014
Lesson
Students Outcomes: The students will be able to read, spell,
and understand…
Homophones
Unit 1/Quarter 1
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Closed Syllable
 Introduce routines
 Set up Word Study Notebook
 Review short vowel sounds, consonant clusters/diagraphs (ch, sh, th, wh, ck,
and ph) (posters/wall chart)
 Review bonus letters (ss, ll, ff, and zz)
mist/missed
profit/prophet
2
Closed Syllable con’t
 Review short vowel sounds (poster/wall chart)
lesson/lessen
find/fined
3
v-c-e Syllable (helping e)
gate/gait
 Review long vowels sounds in VCe syllables (the “e” is the perfect volunteer, it mode/mowed
lute/loot
helps make the first vowel say its name, but keeps silent) (poster/wall chart)
 Welded exceptions to VCe syllable –ive (like in give or olive); we do not have real
owrds that end in the letter v in our language
4
Open Syllable
pi/pie
no/know
 Review long vowel sounds in Open syllables (poster/wall chart)
 Discuss the sounds of the letter y in open syllables (y says the long i sound as in
cry in a one syllable word)(y says the long e sound when not in the first syllable
like in baby or pretty)
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Open Syllable con’t
 Review long vowel sounds in Open syllables (poster/wall chart)
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6
Open and Closed Syllables
 Review both short and long single vowel sounds (posters/wall charts)
 Mixed Practice
 Discuss exceptions
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Unit 1
Greek and Latin Roots
*These can be taught any time during Unit 1/Quarter 1
-press
-script/scribe
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2
Unit 1
Greek and Latin Root
*This can be taught any time during Unit 1/Quarter 1
-port
n/a
Unit 2/Quarter 2
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Other sounds of c and g
 C says /s/ when followed by e, i, or y (cyclone, accident)
 G says /j/ when followed by e, i, or y (gigantic, suggest)
cereal/serial
genes/jeans
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c-le Syllable (consonant-le)
 Consonant-le syllable is an ending syllable, only the consonant and the letter l is
heard, the e is silent. The e is there to make the syllable legal (nimble, vehicle)
 Exceptions to the c-le syllable: -stle (the t is silent like in whistle and hustle)
meddle/medal
bridle/bridal
peddle/pedal
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muscle/mussel
Review
Sorting and reviewing all four types covered
• open
• closed
• v-c-e
• c-le
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Prefixes
 A prefix is an affix which is placed before the stem or base of a word
 Adding it to the beginning of one word changes it into another word.
 meaning and spelling
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Adding Prefixes to base words
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1
Unit 2
Greek and Latin Roots
*These can be taught any time during Unit 2/Quarter 2
-manu/-man
-ject
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2
Unit 2
Greek and Latin Roots
*These can be taught any time during Unit 2/Quarter 2
-tract
-min
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9
Unit 3/Quarter 3
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Suffixes
 A suffix is an affix which is a word ending. It is a group of letters you can add to
the end of a root word.
 meaning and spelling
 -al and -ity
stationary/stationery
guessed/guest
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Adding Suffixes to base words
-ine, -age, -ege
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R-Controlled Syllable
 Vowel sounds for r-controlled syllables: ar as in car, or as in horn, er as in her, ur
as in burn, ir as in first
 The letter r controls the vowel sound
kernel/colonel
hanger/hangar
whirled/world
current/currant
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Vowel Team Syllable
• ai, ay, ee, ey
• oe, oa, ue
waive/wave
sees/seas/seize
hair/hare
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Vowel Team Syllables con’t
• oi, oy, au, aw
• eu, ui, ew
haul/hall
pause/paws
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Vowel Team Syllables con’t
• ou (trout soup) 2 sounds
• ow (snowplow) 2 sounds
• oo (good food) 2 sounds
• ea (eat bread and steak) 3 sounds
moose/mousse
pores/pours
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toad/toed/towed
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Unit 3
Greek and Latin Roots
*These may be taught any time during Unit 3/Quarter 3
-miss/mit
n/a
2
Unit 3
Greek and Latin Roots
*These may be taught any time during Unit 3/Quarter 3
-sym
n/a
Unit 4/Quarter 4
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Silent Letters
wrest/rest
 wr says /r/ (wrath), rh says /r/ rhinoceros, gh says /g/ ghoul, kn says /n/ knob, gn plumb/plum
rain/reign
says /n/ gnarled, mn says /n/ column, and mb says /m/ plumber
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Advanced spellings
que- /k/
ch-/k/
click/clique
cord/chord
mask/masque
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Advanced Spellings con’t
-ti, -ci , -tu, -ture
feature, signature, social
patients/patience
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Homographs
 two or more words spelled the same but not necessarily pronounced the
n/a
same and having different meanings and origins
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Homographs
 two or more words spelled the same but not necessarily pronounced the
n/a
same and having different meanings and origins
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Unit 4
Greek and Latin Roots
*These may be taught any time during Unit 4/Quarter 4
-carm
–corp
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2
Unit 4
Green and Latin Roots
*These may be taught any time during Unit 4/Quarter 4
-ped
–pod
n/a
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