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.
