Punctual Punctuation Puncture Word Inquiry

Description

What meaning and spelling connections could these words have? Punctual, punctuation, and puncture. Here’s a word inquiry to help your students learn about grapheme-phoneme correpondences, morphology, and a sharp word family.

Your students will become familiar with a <u> connecting vowel letter, the <-ure> suffix, as well as the pronunciation of <t> when it’s followed by <i> or <u>.

Using this word family, students will

• write sentences using these three target words
• work with morphology, writing word sums
• look at the etymology (origin & history) of these words to find their common ancestor word, or etymon as it’s called
• read sentences and find other related words to this word family
• complete a matrix that I started for you, adding suffixes
• write word sums for the additional words
• determine the phonemes spelled by each grapheme
• recognize that often a final-E is unpronounced
• notice that some spellings came to English from other languages
• play a spelling tic tac toe game
• play a reading wipe out game
• learn and have fun at the same time

Happy Reading! Happy Spelling! Happy Learning!