Reading & Spelling Busy & Business
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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.
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Not a few students have issues reading and spelling busy and business. This word has a <u> pronounced /ɪ/ (short-i). Not what we’re expecting.
❓Why is spelled with a <u>?
❓Why aren’t we pronouncing with a /ʌ/ (short-u phoneme)?
Check out the busy entry on Etymonline.com for more info. Sometimes there aren’t definite answers.
Could it have been a mistake from handwriting? <u> vs <i> Maybe.
Want a way to work on this busy word family with your students? Yes!
What’s included in your Print & Go PDF:
- Busy Word Family
- Digging Into Spelling Understanding with Busy (Meaning, Etymology, and Phonology)
- Learning about Changing Y to I
- Busy Word Sums-both synthetic (combining morphemes) & analytic (separating morphemes)
- Writing Sentences with Busy Words
- Common Expressions with Busy
How might you use this?
- Discuss why this word is challenging to spell.
- Ask student to use busy in a sentence.
- Look at the etymology together (entry provided) and discuss what you find there.
- Then students will touch the graphemes and say the phonemes in this word.
- Explain the Suffixing Convention Changing <Y> to <I> using the Learning About Changing Y to I page and work through the examples together.
- Then help them with some of Busy Word Sums page if they’re new to word sums. But it won’t take more than a few before they’re ready to finish that page on their own.
- Ask them to write some sentences. You decide how many. Each one using a different word from the busy word family.
- Ask students to read through all the completed words from the Word Sum page and to read their sentences aloud.
- Discuss some common busy expressions and how we use them. Write sentences with those.
Happy Reading & Spelling!
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