Sunday, December 4, 2016

Understanding words


Today Ms Marcelle and I continued our discussions with the class abut spelling and how parts of the words help us understand their meaning.

We watched an explanation by Gina Cooke and learned that ...

  • parts of words make sense
  • many words can be brojen into two or three parts
  • we can construct ew words by putting two words together
  • a word has many layers
  • most words have a structure
  • understanding the structure of a word helps you work out its meaning
  • the word onion comes from the word one = one bulb


Making sense of spelling - Gina Cooke




Students created lists of words starting with re and wrote a hypothesis about how re changes another word.  RE means to do something again.
Examples: recycle, return, rewrite, replay.

Students also created lists of words that ended in able and wrote a hypothesis about how able changes a word. many words with ABLE at the end mean something you can do.
Examples: renewable, respectable, doable, playable, testable.

We will continue to explore how words are created this week.

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