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Many factors contribute to spellings. Word origin, phoneme-grapheme correspondences, morphology and ________________.
What is position constraints of letters?
Give examples of inflectional morphemes.
What are "-s", "-ed", "-er", "-est"?
The woman banana eat.
What is a sentence with meaning, but is not grammatically correct?
The grapheme "ch" can represent multiple sounds. Words from France with a "ch" spelling usually are pronounced with /sh/. If a word's origin is Greek, the "ch" represents a different sound.
What is the /k/ sound?
The correct way to map the word "eight"
What is eigh - t ?
Sometimes teachers confuse diagraphs and silent letter combinations digraphs.
2 letters that combine to make a unique sound like ph, sh, ch, th
What is a diagraph?
The morpheme "-ed" can represent multiple sounds.
What are /d/, /t/, and /id/?
Yellow tears fall enthusiastically through the wind.
The grapheme "ch" can represent multiple sounds. Words from France with a "ch" spelling usually are pronounced with /sh/. If a word's origin is Anglo-Saxon, the "ch" represents a different sound.
What is the /ch/ sound like in "cheese"?
The correct way to map the word "throw"
What is th - r - ow?
A digraph is a combination of two sounds representing only 1 sound. Sometimes teachers confuse diagraphs and silent letter combinations digraphs.
"kn", "ck", "mb", "gh", "gn" are _____________
What are digraphs (2 letters) silent letter combinations?
The origin of the our most basic English words.
What is Anglo-Saxon?
In English a sentence requires both a _________ and a ___________.
What are a noun phrase and a verb phrase?
What are a noun and a verb?
What are vowel-r and then vowel team?
"ck" is usually found after
What is a short vowel?
The vowels that usually attract consonant protection are _________.
What are short vowels?
examples: cat, big, fox (they are protected by consonants)
Lists of words that could be categorized on a spectrum of intensity---even having opposites on each end.
Example: enraged -- furious -- content --- gleeful -- estatic
What are shades of meaning?
The person who will do amazing on the final test.
The syllable types found in "bacon"
What are open, closed?
"ba" is open long a
"con" is closed, some may call it a schwa syllable though depending on dialect SMART doesn't really discuss schwa syllables as much as we should (shantelle's opinion)
Free Points
What is easy?
It is essential for teachers to teach about blends as multiple letters representing multiple individual sounds, and NOT teach blends as units.
What is each sound in the blend is retained?
Playhouse has ____ morphemes
What are two?
The number of morphemes in elephant.
What is one?
Greek combining forms are meaningful parts to combine with other meaningful parts. An example is photosynthesis, where "photo" means "light" and "synthesis" means "to put together" Another is "dyspepsia" where dys= bad or difficult and pepsia = digestion. a person suffering from dyspepsia is having difficulty with digestion. The latin prefix "dis" meaning "apart" or "opposite" is different from the Greek combining form "dys"
What are other examples of Greek Combining forms? graphia, phobia, mania, phyll
What is th-or-ough? What is 3?