Instruction in action
She… is a Pretty Big Word
Discover how the word 'she' is more than a simple personal pronoun, revealing the nuanced uses of high-frequency words and effective ways to teach them.
Knuffelcontact: word of the year
Lots of coronavirus language has sprung up with Covid19. Find out what a knuffelcontact has to do with knights or knees and even Knuffle Bunny by Mo Willems.
We’re all in this together
Learn about the structure of the terms synchronous and asynchronous, find related words, and investigate the prefix syn-.
What’s in – What’s out?
Practice finding words in a morphological word family through an in-out sort. Show your students the video and set the challenge to create their own.
Sorting-out Structure: Purposeful Practice
Solidify your students’ understanding of the structural elements of words, the morphemes, through practice. Show them the video and set the challenge.
Play the music, let’s dance!
In these uncertain coronavirus times lift your mood, play some music, dance and along the way do some word inquiry around the base dance.
Odd-one-out
Look closely at the morphemes and graphemes in a group of four words to find the one that doesn’t belong. Is there really only one ‘odd-one-out’?
Excuse the interruption but words have stories…
All words have stories of their own. The etymology of words like erupt and interruption shows us how they are connected by both meaning and structure. Learning the story of a family of words helps
Are we close to closure?
Reinforce a key concept of English orthography - that letters usually represent more than one phoneme. As it’s close to the end of the school year in many schools, <close> seems an appropriate word to