Woman Women Reading & Spelling Activities
$1.50
A student’s frequent trouble reading “woman” for “women” and misspelling both words led to this resource. His question about the spelling and how close his idea was to the Old English spelling were surprising to both of us.
Description
Woman-Women, Why is it spelled that way? A fourth grade student wanted to know.
He’s not the first student who confuses “woman” and “women” when reading and has trouble with the spelling. Sure we talked about singular and plural and “man” and “men,” but he wanted to know why we didn’t spell “women” like he pronounces it-/wɪ mən/. Shouldn’t it just be <wimen>?!
His question delighted me even more when I saw the Old English spellings at Etymonline.com.
Your students will appreciate more practice with these two words to clear up their confusion.
Included in this Resource:
- Women-Woman Graphic
- Related & Compound Words Page
- Check the Spelling page
- Elkonin Boxes page (one for either term: sounds or phonemes)
- Reading Fluency Phrases in a Google Slides presentation (Google Drive account required)
