Morphology
"to look" or "to see," giving us words like inspect, spectator, and retrospect.
What is spect?
The word mountain highlights this specific vowel team digraph, which represents the /ow/ sound in the first syllable.
What is ou?
To distinguish between this word meaning a visitor you invite into your home, and the past-tense action of making an educated estimate.
What are guest and guessed?
This is a written proof that you have paid for something.
receipt
How many syllables are in photosynthesis?
5
This Latin root word means "to carry," and it helps build vocabulary like portable, transport, and export.
What is port?
This tense-marking digraph can pull triple duty, representing the sound /t/ in walked, /d/ in played, or two single phonemes (/e/ and /d/) in rented.
What is ed?
These are defined as words that are pronounced the exact same way but feature different spellings and completely different meanings.
What are homophones?
This is the process plants use to make their own food using sunlight.
photosynthesis
Scoop the syllables in transportation.
trans | por | ta | tion
Found in words like structure, construct, and destruction, this Week 7 Latin root word translates to "to build".
What is struct?
Which grapheme represents the long /ee/ sound in words like receive and ceiling.
What is ei?
A student writing about a bad-tasting piece of poultry would need to carefully separate these two Week 2 homophones: one meaning disgusting or unfair, and the other meaning a bird.
What are foul and fowl?
This word means working well without wasting time or energy.
efficient
Which word contains the root meaning light and the root meaning write?
photograph
Meaning "out of," this type of prefix changes its final sound to match the beginning sound of a base word—like when it turns into ef- for effort or e- for emerge.
What is an assimilated prefix?
Words containing this consonant digraph to represent the /f/ sound—such as microphone or telescope—are usually Greek in origin.
What is ph?
The homophone pairing for the word "banned" (as in prohibited) is this word, which means a group of musicians playing together.
What is band?
This word means the movement of people or goods from one place to another.
transportation
Which word contains the prefix meaning out of, the root meaning carry, and means "to send goods to another country"?
Export
This root word of Greek origin means "light" and is the structural foundation for words like photograph and photosynthesis.
What is photo (or phos)?
This single-letter vowel grapheme can represent a surprising variety of sounds, including /e/ as in egg, /ee/ as in evil, /i/ as in pretty, or a neutral schwa sound.
What is e?
A dancer pouring her heart into a performance even though this part of her shoe came completely loose.
What is the sole?
This word means ordinary or not unusual. It begins with the prefix un-.
unexceptional
Find the mistakes:The fotographer recieved the recipt before leaving.
The photographer received the receipt before leaving.