Best Spelling Strategies for Effective Teaching
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Best Spelling Strategies for Effective Teaching

ByKatie

Want to help your students become confident spellers? Learn SEVEN powerful spelling strategies for effective teaching! These research-backed techniques are easy to implement, helping students master spelling tricky words with confidence and accuracy. Teaching Spelling Strategies English is a morphophonemic language, which is just a fancy way of saying that word spellings are influenced by…

Morpheme Exploration: 2 Free Printables
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Morpheme Exploration: 2 Free Printables

ByKatie

Discover morphemes and their related words with this free printable activity! Kids will have fun “exploring” word parts while strengthening their vocabulary knowledge. Keep reading and grab yours today! 🚀 Why Explore Morphology? Morphology is the study of word structure—how prefixes, suffixes, and base words come together to create meaning. Research shows that teaching morphology…

Semantic Mapping to Build Vocabulary
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Semantic Mapping to Build Vocabulary

ByKatie

Semantic mapping is a helpful strategy for students to better understand and connect words! Learn more about what semantic mapping is, how to use it in the classroom, and get a FREE Semantic Mapping Template to make implementation easy! What Is Semantic Mapping? Semantic mapping is a strategy used to connect and organize words in…

Election Day Word Search: Free Printable
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Election Day Word Search: Free Printable

ByKatie

Get this engaging printable Election Day Word Search for free. It includes 15 content-specific words about voting for students to find, plus lots of ideas for vocabulary and knowledge-building. An answer key is included, too! Why We Love It Election day is such an exciting time when we get to exercise our right to vote….

Using Alphaboxes for Comprehension (Free Printable)
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Using Alphaboxes for Comprehension (Free Printable)

ByKatie

Discover how to use Alphaboxes to make reading more engaging, boost vocabulary, and deepen students’ comprehension of any text. Plus, download our no-prep Alphabox graphic organizer as a FREE pdf below, perfect to use with any book selection. 🔤 What Are Alphaboxes? Alphaboxes are a type of graphic organizer that can help students deepen their…

All About Phonemes, Graphemes, and Morphemes
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All About Phonemes, Graphemes, and Morphemes

ByKatie

Learn all about phonemes, graphemes, and morphemes. Learn what these terms mean, their importance in the field of literacy, and the power of teaching phoneme-grapheme correspondences and morphemic analysis. Phonemes, Graphemes, & Morphemes The terms phonemes, grapheme, and morpheme have a few things in common as they relate to the structure of the English language….

Best Children’s Books for Building Vocabulary
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Best Children’s Books for Building Vocabulary

ByKatie

We’ve compiled a list of our favorite children’s books for building vocabulary. These fun and engaging books will create an awareness of and interest in words, creating deep and meaningful connections for learning new and important vocabulary words. Building Vocabulary Vocabulary is the knowledge of words and what they mean. The National Reading Panel (2000)…

Schwa Sound Practice Worksheets: FREE Printables
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Schwa Sound Practice Worksheets: FREE Printables

ByKatie

The Schwa is the most common vowel sound in English, so students need lots of practice in order to read, spell, and pronounce words containing a schwa. Get two free Schwa Sound practice worksheets to help your students identify and spell the schwa sound in words. What Is the Schwa Sound? There are some basic…

Free Morphology Worksheets: Prefixes, Suffixes, Bases
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Free Morphology Worksheets: Prefixes, Suffixes, Bases

ByKatie

Get these FREE morphology worksheets to help students deepen their vocabulary knowledge by analyzing words by looking at morphemes. Get printable word cards with prefixes, suffixes, and bases PLUS a reusable word sum worksheet. Why Teach Morphology? Morphology is a term that relates to the study of word structure and its meaning. Morphemic analysis is…

Word Matrix: Free Customizable Template
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Word Matrix: Free Customizable Template

ByKatie

Get a customizable word matrix template, a great tool to integrate effective vocabulary instruction in the classroom! Students practice building words and analyzing their meanings using bases, prefixes, and suffixes with this free printable. All About Word Matrixes Word matrixes (sometimes called matrices) are a tool used to help kids learn about word parts and…