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?

  1. Discuss why this word is challenging to spell.
  2. Ask student to use busy in a sentence.
  3. Look at the etymology together (entry provided) and discuss what you find there.
  4. Then students will touch the graphemes and say the phonemes in this word.
  5. Explain the Suffixing Convention Changing <Y> to <I>  using the Learning About Changing Y to I page and work through the examples together.
  6. 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.
  7. Ask them to write some sentences. You decide how many. Each one using a different word from the busy word family.
  8. Ask students to read through all the completed words from the Word Sum page and to read their sentences aloud.
  9. Discuss some common busy expressions and how we use them. Write sentences with those.

Happy Reading & Spelling!

 

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