Supplementary videos

Making and Breaking

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In this video, students are shown how to practice spelling patterns using grapheme cards to enhance their understanding of orthography and morphology.

Making and Breaking is a teacher-directed game. Its purpose is to strengthen recently introduced patterns and conventions while revisiting previously taught concepts. Students will gain a deeper understanding of grapheme to phoneme connections, orthography and morphology.

This lesson demonstrates how we use orthography and morphology to spell <swapped>. We focus on <wa>, the doubling sufixing convention, and understanding suffix <-ed> as a meaningful unit (morpheme) and not just “sounds” (phonemes). 

Facey

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Facey is a guessing game where one player thinks of a word, and the other tries to guess it by suggesting letters. Facey is more complex in that we think deeply about graphemes (a letter or group of letters). We think about the various types of graphemes that exist, the position those graphemes may or may not be found, and how their pronunciation can change based on this positionality. For example, looking for the “sound” /f/, a player may ask for an <f> whereas a student playing Facey, may ask for an <f>, <ph> or even <gh>! Facey also leads to deep discussions about the meanings of various affixes (prefixes and suffixes).