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: ingest, digest, digestive, congested, suggest.
Concepts: Notice how the grapheme <t> can spell different phonemes across the word family. Discover words with assimilated prefixes which can cause spelling challenges.
Word Family: press, pressed, pressure, depressed, oppressive, expression, impressive.
Base: <press” from Latin pressare "to press"
Concepts: What can <s> write. Assimilated Prefixes.
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: vision, revise, invisible, visit, and visual.
Concepts: Notice that vowel suffixes replace single, final, unpronounced <e>. Discover how <s> can write different pronunciations across the family.
Word Family: conserve, conservation, observe and observant.
Concepts: Vowel suffixes replace single final unpronounced <e>. Notice what the grapheme <t> can write?
Word Family: decision, incisors, concise, precise.
Concepts: Vowel suffixes replace single, final, unpronounced <e>. Notice that the grapheme <c> and <s> can write different pronunciations.
Word Family: rain, raining, rained, rains, rainy, rainiest.
Concepts: The combining nature of alphabetic letters, graphemes, morphemes and words.
Concepts: Explores the difference between alphabetic letters and graphemes. Identifies the difference between single letter graphemes, two letter graphemes and three letter graphemes.
Word Family: realize, real, really, reality, realistic.
Concepts: Discover how to build a word matrix. Notice how studying related words helps students make sense of words that have reduced vowels or graphemes that are not writing a pronunciation. Explore how to visually represent vowel reduction.
