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Thinking Spelling

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An etymology resource is packed with suggestions for activities designed to build phonological, visual, morphemic, and etymological spelling skills.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

spelling, spelling rules, irregular spellings, spelling patterns, morphemes, etymology, sound, roots, prefixes, suffixes, phonemes, graphemes, phonemic awareness, digraphs, trigraphs, phonetics

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english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Provide older learners with a color copy of the spelling charts and have them choose several activities for each weeks' spelling list

Classroom Considerations

  • Includes an explanation of key terms and general strategies; however, the suggested activity list does not include explanations

Pros

  • Includes a chart that details a possible teaching sequence of skills, as well as spelling and word knowledge activities based on Bloom's taxonomy

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RF.1.2.a RF.1.3.a

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