Classroom visual resources
a selection of classroom visual resources to support your word study
Orthography Intertwined: Lesson Supports
- FREE – Making Morphology Visible & Attesting Affixes
- Homophones Game
- Grapheme & Affix Tiles
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Orthography Intertwined: Lesson Supports
FREE – Making Morphology Visible & Attesting Affixes
This activity, accompanying cards and worksheet is intended to support your studies of morphology.
In order to decide if some letters are functioning as a prefix you have to decide on the structure of the word.
You cannot decide on the structure until you first think about the meaning of the word.
Boxing the base and underlining affixes makes the morphology very clear.
Homophones Game
Homophones are great examples of why our orthography needs to be studied as an integrated whole.
Homophones are words that sound the same but are spelled differently.
So that’s phonics – different letters for the same sound.
However, studying the morphology of a word often helps make the spelling choices clearer. For example daze and days. And then there’s the etymology – the history of the word always helps explain the spelling. Your students will learn a lot about how words work by studying homophones! These cards can be used to play memory/concentration, Go Fish, as matching activities, and as a springboard for deeper study.
Grapheme & Affix Tiles
This set of tiles represents the majority of graphemes and a bank of frequently-used affixes. The intent is to offer an accurate starter set of manipulative materials for working with students in building bases, creating complex words and writing word sums. As you attest more affixes add them to your toolkit.
