Vocabulary building activities
Each Word Families activity is based around a common base word and its related family words.
The activities support:
spelling of multi-syllabic words
an understanding of parts of speech
syntactical awareness
vocabulary development (including many Tier-2 vocabulary words)
decoding multi-syllabic words
reading fluency
morphological awareness
pronunciation of multi-syllabic words
includes the following base words :
Disrupt
Effect
Include
Infer
Insight
Precede
Predict
Prefer
Refer
Reverse
(Recommended Grade 4 and up)
includes the following base words :
Instruct
Respond
Structure
Convert
Consist
Convene
Sustain
Concept
(Recommended Grade 6 and up)
ACTIVITY: COMMON BASE WORD
Students find the common base word in a word family.
ACTIVITY: BASE WORD
Learners break down the base word into its morphological components and are introduced to the individual meaning units within the word.
ACTIVITY: MATCH THE WORDS TO THEIR PARTS
Students practice matching words to morphemes.
ACTIVITY: CONSTRUCTOR
Gives students practice building and discovering words from morphemes.
ACTIVITY: DECONSTRUCTOR
Students break words into their individual morphemes.
ACTIVITY: FLIPPER
Students practice reading the words within the family.
ACTIVITY: SPOKEN CHAINING
Students orally respond to prompts asking them to change affixes.
ACTIVITY: SPELLING CHAINING
Students spell words as the affixes change.
ACTIVITY: PARTS OF SPEECH
Students sort the words from the family into parts of speech categories and explore the function of the words in sentences.
ACTIVITY: FILL IN THE WORD
Students fill in the correct family word in sentences.
