Grate Grate Grateful A Structured Word Inquiry
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Usually words with the same spelling and meaning are related. Does a grate on a grill, grate as in grating cheese, and the grate in grateful have anything in common besides their spelling? Are they related?
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***Recently updated resource since it was first made in the days before Canva!
Still free. Still a quick print and use activity.
Usually words with the same spelling and meaning are related. Is that the case with grate, grate, and grateful?
This resource is an exercise in Structured Word Inquiry (SWI). It includes a graphic to compare these words as you move through the 4 SWI questions as well as 3 matrices with space for word sums. Students can use the word sums to read the completed words when they’re done with this activity. They could also use them to create verbal or written sentences.
Help your students become familiar with some suffixes they may not have encountered before as well as the replacing (or dropping) a final, non-syllabic (silent) <e> suffixing pattern.
This is just an example of what you can do with structured word inquiry-based learning.
The base of grateful can be analyzed as <grate> as I’ve done in this resource. A fellow word lover, Mary Beth Steven, surprised herself and me by discovering that grateful‘s base can be analyzed to just two letters! <gr> is the base of grace–> gr + ace and grateful–> gr + ate + ful.
Do you have to analyze to that extent? No. Could you? 100% yes. It is an interesting discovery but the resource included here is what I am currently using with my students. Your students will find this engaging, which makes it memorable.
Happy Spelling!
