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Introducing “Making Words”- a different kind of spelling program

Introducing “Making Words”- a different kind of spelling program . Teaches students the process of identifying root words, prefixes, and suffixes to further student understanding of word meaning. Lessons are designed to activate prior knowledge and encourage the learning of new words.

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Introducing “Making Words”- a different kind of spelling program

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  1. Introducing “Making Words”- a different kind of spelling program Teaches students the process of identifying root words, prefixes, and suffixes to further student understanding of word meaning. Lessons are designed to activate prior knowledge and encourage the learning of new words. Purpose of “Making Words” activities are to increase student abilities in spelling and reading. Making Words 5th Grade by Patricia M. Cunningham and Dorothy P. Hall

  2. Goals/Objectives • Students will be able to correctly add prefixes, suffixes, and change tenses for any root word based upon what they have learned in the “Making Words” lessons. • Students will be able to decipher unfamiliar words when they are reading based upon what they have learned in the “Making Words” lessons; thus increasing their reading comprehension. • Students will increase their reading fluency by understanding the phonemic application of the spelling patterns we learn through the Making Words lessons.

  3. Not your typical spelling list… • Making words lessons are not designed for rote memorization, but are instead actual word studies. • Each lesson focuses on one or two spelling rules. • Each lesson introduces or reviews two to five suffixes and prefixes.

  4. What to expect… • Words may seem easy at first, remember the word study is the point. • Easier root words are built upon using suffixes, prefixes, and different tenses. • Easier root words are also combined to form compound words.

  5. Example List (grouped by related words) • real • unreal • ripe • unripe • ripen • mine • miner • plant • planter • implant • replant • planet • planetarium • paint • painter • repaint • time • timer • timed

  6. Word Study Focus Example Spelling Rule- When the root word ends in “e” drop the e at the end of the root word before adding er, en, ing, or ed.EX: time + ing = timing (drop the e) Suffix/Prefix Meanings un – prefix meaning not or opposite EX: un + ripe = unripe = not ripe im – prefix meaning in EX: im + plant = implant = plant in re – prefix meaning back or again EX: re + plant = replant = plant again er – suffix meaning person or thing that does something EX: plant + er = planter = someone who plants

  7. Activities • Students manipulate letters and use definition clues to discover their spelling words. • Students create word sorts using circle maps and tree maps. These are used to sort spelling words using the rules and prefixes/suffixes we learn for that week’s list. • Students use the spelling patterns we learn to create new words for their word sorts. • Students practice by playing “games” designed to encourage their recall of spelling patterns and word meaning.

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