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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.

Word Family: insect, insects, sections, dissected, bisected, intersection

Base: <“sect” from Latin secare "cut"

Concepts: What can <t> write? Suffix dis- meaning apart. Suffix bi- meaning “two”.

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: 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.