Unpacked Content
Knowledge
- How to identify a word ending with an s or suffix -s.
- Whether suffix is will be sounded as voiced /z/ or unvoiced /s/ based on the sound before it.
Skills
With prompting and support,
- Decode words with suffix -s, using knowledge of unvoiced /s/ and voiced /z/ sounds for letter s.
Understanding
- When suffix -s is after an unvoiced consonant, it makes the unvoiced /s/ sound, like in the words pups or cats.
- When suffix -s is after an voiced consonant, it makes the voiced /z/ sound, like in the words pigs and dogs.
Vocabulary
- Decode
- Suffix -s
- Sounds of letter s
- Unvoiced /s/
- Voiced /z/
- Prompting
- Support
