Punctual Punctuation Puncture Word Inquiry
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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!
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