Word Family: friend, friends, friendly, friendliest.
Concepts: Notice how etymology can help students make sense of graphemes that are not writing a pronunciation. Explore how a single <y> grapheme can toggle to <i> when adding on suffixes unless the suffix begins with <i>.
Word Family: protect, protects, protection, detective.
Concepts: Notice how <t> can write different pronunciations across a word family. Discover how to build a word family. Explore how etymology reveals the core meaning of the base and how this meaning is shared across a word family.
Word Family: heal, healer, health, healthy, healthiest
Concepts: Notice how the phonology of the grapheme <ea> can shift across a word family. Discover how spelling heal with the grapheme <ea> helps to distinguish the difference in meaning between the homophones heal and heel. Explore the suffixing convention of <y> toggles to <i>.
Word Family: contractions, tractor, extract, subtract, attract.
Concepts: Explore the etymology of the word contraction to help students notice that all the words in this family have something to do with the notion of pulling. Activating this understanding helps students make sense of what contractions are in English spelling. It may also be helpful to highlight that the apostrophe signals that graphemes have been extracted.
Word Family: collected, collection, collective, collectively, select, elected.
Concepts: Noticing that <t> can write /ʃ/ when followed by an <i>. Discovering that vowels can be reduced all the way to zero. Observing that the pronunciation of the base in a word can shift across a family. Noticing how suffixes can change the potential grammatical form of words.
Word Family: wind, winding, winds
Concepts: Noticing how the difference in pronunciation between wind and wind signals a difference in meaning.
Exploring etymological relatives wander, went and go.
Word Family: migrate and migration
Concepts: Vowel suffixes can replace a single final non-syllabic <e>. Noticing that <t> can write /ʃ/ when followed by an <i>.
Word Family: play, played, player, playful, playing, plays, and playground.
Content: How to build a word family. Notice how the <e> is not writing a pronunciation in the word played. Discover one of the jobs of suffix -er. Notice what position in the word we use the grapheme <ay>. Learn how to create compound words.
Word Family: erode and rodent.
Concepts: Notice that vowel suffixes replace single, final, unpronounced <e>. Identify words with reduced vowels which can cause spelling challenges. Discover what the grapheme <o> can write.
Concepts: Make sense of word which contain graphemes that are not writing a pronunciation by exploring related words. Notice words that share a meaning often share a spelling.
Word Family: clap, claps, clapping, clapped.
Concepts: Notice how vowel suffixes cause spelling changes.
Concepts: Help students identify whether or not a word is a noun using the proof for nouns. Notice how nouns can be used in sentences.
Concepts: Notice the unpronounced <l> in walk makes more sense when you examine related words. Explore how words that share a meaning often share a spelling.
Concepts: This video explores the spelling and meaning connection between the words here, where and there which all are related to the concept of position.
Word Family: rain, raining, rained, rains, rainy, rainiest.
Concepts: The combining nature of alphabetic letters, graphemes, morphemes and words.
Word Family: jump, jumped, jumping, jumps.
Concepts: Building a word family. Suffix -ed, ing, -s
Concept: The spelling of a word make more sense when you look at related words.
Graphemes: The positional uses of <ay> word final and <ai> at the beginning and middle of a base.
Word Family: tooth, toothbrush, toothpaste, toothless.
Graphemes: The relationship between grapheme <oo> and <ee>.
Concepts: Vowel reduction in the suffix -less. Compound words. The function of the single unpronounced <e> on the word toothpaste. Words distantly related to teeth.
Concepts: Explores the difference between alphabetic letters and graphemes. Identifies the difference between single letter graphemes, two letter graphemes and three letter graphemes.
Concepts: The spelling of a word makes more sense when you explore related words. Discover how some graphemes have positional constraints (beginning, middle, end).
Graphemes: Notice how <ey> is the best fit for the spelling of they as it marks a connection to the <e> in them and their.
