@Spell2Read

Helping kids build knowledge and understanding for spelling and reading. #Orthography #Phonology #Morphology #Etymology #StructuredWordInquiry #Dyslexia

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Joined November 2016
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“If we are going to teach children how their writing system works, we need to teach them the interrelation of morphology, phonology, and etymology."
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To say you can predict the future is to say there will be no new ideas.
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These lucky learners are studying the English writing system, investigating “tricky” words to discover their relatives, elements, and units. mbsteven.edublogs.org/2023/0…
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Isn’t their work amazing? Check out the tools they use to deepen their understanding of the writing system, identify and correct errors in their current thinking, and create explanatory knowledge for reading and spelling.
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“Understanding a word’s structure and then spelling the word by announcing its morphemes is a more reliable strategy for spelling than sounding it out or judging the word on its looks.” @MaryBethSteve18 mbsteven.edublogs.org/2023/0…
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Morphological analysis tools such as word sums and matrices provide a useful structure for helping kids to think about word pronunciations and meanings shanahanonliteracy.com/blog/…
Mr Leyshon@RyonWLeyshon19 Feb 2023
Replying to @RyonWLeyshon
Looking at how words containing a shared base change as other morphemes are added/removed will not only solidify core spelling patterns but also draw attention to how the phonological aspects of a word can change even when the spelling remains constant within these word families.
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Stephanie Ruston@Spell2Read6 Feb 2023
Children can use word sums and matrices to study English words in the permanent context of their morphological families. xitter.cf/GinaCookeLEX/status/13…
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“The fact that the grapheme <t> in act and action maps onto different pronunciations is not evidence of a poor spelling system; rather, it is evidence that English spelling encodes morphology in a consistent manner.” cpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.…
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Children can use word sums and matrices to study English words in the permanent context of their morphological families. xitter.cf/GinaCookeLEX/status/13…
Mr Leyshon@RyonWLeyshon26 Jan 2023
Replying to @RyonWLeyshon
I’d love to hear if anyone else has any ‘go-to’ spelling activities they feel help children to consider the both the phonology and morphology of words!
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Note: I meant to include a link to the source for the above <act> family matrix. It's Dr. @GinaCookeLEX's work, not mine. xitter.cf/GinaCookeLEX/status/13…
LuckyGirlLinguist💃@GinaCookeLEX28 Apr 2021
Replying to @ANLiteracy
You can group anything in a cell that can work across that row. For example, here, I do NOT group <ion> and <ive> because *activeable and *actionly are nor possible words. But the connecting <u> can serve the words actual, actually, actuary, and actuate, so I group accordingly.
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These tools and activities require children to spell and read words while analyzing and considering their phonology and morphology together.
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“Every time we study a word in its family, we learn more about the system.” - Dr. Gina Cooke shamelessspelling.com/time-t…

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Doug Lemov
@Doug_Lemov1 Feb 2023
Written text is almost always ambiguous & readers have to resolve that ambiguity quickly in a process called "disambiguation.' What they rely on most of all to do that is background knowledge. Which is why it's so central to reading comprehension. teachlikeachampion.org/blog/…
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Homophones are etymological.
LuckyGirlLinguist💃@GinaCookeLEX12 Jul 2022
Replying to @RyonWLeyshon @SoundSyllable
Homophones are etymological, though, and primary is full of them! How do you explain <feet> vs. <feat>, for example? Welp, <feet>~<foot>, but <feat>~<fact>. Across the system, <ee>~<oo> and <ea>~<a>. That's etymology & can't be explained by phonology or morphology.
The idea that English has "over 200 graphemes" belongs to the old phonetic code theory of English orthography. With the newer morphophonemic theory, we need only 83 graphemes to explain English spellings. linguisteducatorexchange.com…

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The LEX Grapheme Deck is a comprehensive study of literal units in words in use in English. The Deck is a textbook in card form. It’s an encyclopedia of gra ...

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David Didau
@DavidDidau11 Oct 2022
Replying to @greg_ashman @maxantonynewman @tombennett71 @mrcarterhistory
Beyond that, it’s not that English has almost double the number of phonemes, it has over 200 graphemes. The unpredictable relationship between sounds & spelling make learn to decode in English much more complex than any other alphabetic code elemedu.upatras.gr/english/i…
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“Science-based reading research has worked with a phonological emphasis for more than 50 years, but in the English writing system, morphology, etymology, and phonology share the role of organizing the language.” linguisteducatorexchange.com…
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Conventions for “spelling-out orthography” wordworkskingston.com/WordWo… FREE tools and practices that help children focus on structures that are smaller than the word.
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