This task requires students to read simple words containing the wr letter combination after they identify the letter combination and its sound.
This task illustrates that the silent e at the end of -VCe pattern words disappears when that base word takes a suffix beginning with a vowel.
The following is the correction text to use if a student struggles with saying a base word with an ending added to it in this task [example word: saver]:
❖ If a student struggles to read the word with the ending, point to save, and say: What is this word?… Then point to -er, and say: What is this ending?… Then point to saver, and say: So what word is this?…
❖ If the student still struggles to read the word with the ending, say: This word is saver. What word is it?…
This task is the first in a series that introduces students to three endings (-s, -es, and -'s) and their meanings (the first two indicate plurals or verb conjugations; the last indicates possession).
The words in this cycle are all plurals ending with -s or -es.
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