@SoundSyllable

Sounds & Syllables - the sensible primary spelling and word building programme. Also @jasonwade71

 East Midlands, England
jwed.co.uk
Joined April 2021
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I have been busy so haven't posted for the past few weeks, but I have steadily been adding more morpheme maps. The latest include: pete (seek, aim for) tract (pull, draw) bi (life) flor (flower) memor (remember) loc (place) press (press) jwed.co.uk/morpheme-maps/ 🙂
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Nothing brings me as much joy as teaching children to write beautiful sentences. Rainbow Grammar is my strategy of choice when it comes to children understanding and creating wonderful sentences. Two wonderful examples.
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For context, I was teaching complex sentences employing non-finite clauses with Year 4 children . Jean Pendziwol's 'Once Upon a Northern Night' is the stimulus, a beautiful lullaby to winter.
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wordLAB@SoundSyllableSep 27
I've added a bunch of new morpheme maps to the site this week: cure (care, heal, attend to) fer (carry, bear) man (hand) ped (foot) press (press) vive (live, alive) Do let me know if the maps are proving useful. 🙂 jwed.co.uk/morpheme-maps/
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I've added a bunch of new morpheme maps to the site this week: cure (care, heal, attend to) fer (carry, bear) man (hand) ped (foot) press (press) vive (live, alive) Do let me know if the maps are proving useful. 🙂 jwed.co.uk/morpheme-maps/
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I made another thing: the morphemeLAB. Add morphemes to the board and combine them to build words. Snip them up again. Affixing patterns get applied automatically. I'd appreciate any feedback. 🙂 jwed.co.uk/morpheme-lab/
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I've done some tidying up of the morphemes in the store. It was, quite frankly, a mess (just a dump of those that I have collated over the years), most of which will likely never be used. It's pared down, things are better grouped. I can always add more over time. 🙂
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wordLAB@SoundSyllableSep 25
I made another thing: the morphemeLAB. Add morphemes to the board and combine them to build words. Snip them up again. Affixing patterns get applied automatically. I'd appreciate any feedback. 🙂 jwed.co.uk/morpheme-lab/
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It's in early stages at the moment, so if you do spot an error or something isn't working right, please let me know.
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I'm seeing these statements a lot (or something similar) 1. Spelling is speech written down. 2. The organising principle of spelling is morphology. Is it an unpopular view to say that neither is right and that the truth lies somewhere in between?
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I think I'm a spelling centrist and I don't get the polarisation. 🙂
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Another morpheme map is up in the site. sent / sense (feel, perceive, know) And with this one we are up to 26 roots and 1999 words that can be built from them. 🙂 jwed.co.uk/morpheme-maps/
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New interactive tool on the website. Suffix flowcharts Type a word, choose a suffix and follow the flowchart to establish the affixing pattern. Enjoy. 🙂 jwed.co.uk/tools/
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I've just made some tweaks to this. There are now pared back version of flowcharts alongside ones that offer more complexity.
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New post on the blog Mind your <p>s and <q>s why children never write <ckat> but write <bak> all the time, and what that tells you about which spelling patterns need teaching. 🙂 jwed.co.uk/blog/
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A new interactive morpheme map is on the site. anim (breath, soul, spirit, mind, life). A repost share would be most appreciated if you find it useful at all. 🙂 jwed.co.uk/morpheme-maps/
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wordLAB@SoundSyllableSep 17
I know Latin & Greek roots is the cool morphology that gets all the attention, but I'd wager that teaching focused (at least initially) on the most common affixes would prove the more valuable for spelling development, such as these by Holly B. Lane, Linda Gutlohn, W. van Dijk.
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A new interactive morpheme map is now on the site. tort (twist, turn, ring) Enjoy. jwed.co.uk/morpheme-maps/
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wordLAB@SoundSyllableSep 16
First blog post in five years. It takes a look at what research evidence says about the teaching of morphology / etymology - which claims stack up and which don't. jwed.co.uk/blog/sold-on-voca…
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I know Latin & Greek roots is the cool morphology that gets all the attention, but I'd wager that teaching focused (at least initially) on the most common affixes would prove the more valuable for spelling development, such as these by Holly B. Lane, Linda Gutlohn, W. van Dijk.
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