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…
This AI and AY Reading and Spelling Morphology Activities Printable Download is a comprehensive resource designed to help students practice reading and spelling words with the AI and AY patterns. Both color and black-&-white versions are included. Print the PDF to start using engaging reading and spelling morphology activities as well as reading and spelling…
There’s more than one way to spell a long-U sound. Here’s a resource that gives students the opportunity to become familiar with reading and spelling <ue> words, zeroing in on the <value> word family.
Not a few students have issues reading and spelling BUSY and BUSINESS. This word has a <u> pronounced /ɪ/ (short-i). Not what any of us would be expecting.
Working with students online? Have a student who needs to type instead of write? Contraction Reading & Spelling Activities & Games ready to download and use!
So many students have trouble with reading and spelling contractions. Do your students sometimes see don’t and read it aloud as do not? My students do too. How about spelling some of the two-syllable contractions adding extra vowels because they feel them?
Where, There, and Here are often misspelled. Why? Because we have various options to spell them. How do we practice spelling these without it being boring? A brief look at their histories, two spelling games, a correct-the-spelling activity, and a writing activity with our phrases.
When a student asked about the spelling of purchase, specifically why the <a> isn’t an <i>, we had to dig a little deeper. It turns out we were chasing an unstressed syllable. Read more about it at How to Find an Unstressed Syllable. This matrix gives your students an opportunity to work with this word…