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: 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>.
