Spelling with Morphemes Intervention 1 - Dropping the 'e' - Cross Curricular Literacy

Cross Curricular Literacy: Spelling intervention for KS3 and KS4 with easy to follow Teacher’s Notes, Student Worksheet pack and well-designed PowerPoint presentation. Suitable for delivery by non-specialist teachers and assistants. Features a variety of engaging activities designed to equip pupils with the skills needed to spell a wide variety of subject-specific keywords. This unit introduces the concept of spelling with morphemes, and the Dropping the ‘e’ rule. Pupils learn to build and spell new words correctly by adding affixes to base morphemes and to separate them into their components. Learning to spell with morphemes is vastly more efficient than the endemic look-cover-write model. Far fewer, shorter words need to be memorised and students are equipped with the tools to construct longer, less familiar words with confidence. For example, the morpheme ceive is the basis for words such as: conceiving, inconceivably, receivership, deceiver, perceive, etc.

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