Chase Matrix

Description

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 family and practice spelling all its members
• recognize some familiar morphemes (word parts)
• use word sums
• work with the Replacing E Suffixing Convention

Happy Spelling