This comprehensive and detailed unit plan is designed to support students to learn spelling strategies associated with root words and affixes. The unit contains a presentation that walks students through the strategies, a student reference card, accompanying worksheets and games. At the completion of the unit, there is an assessment for teachers to utilise to assess student learning.
Build and spell new words from knowledge of known words, base words, prefixes and suffixes, word origins, letter patterns and spelling generalisations
Explore less common plurals, and understand how a suffix changes the meaning or grammatical form of a word
Understand how to use knowledge of known words, base words, prefixes and suffixes, word origins, letter patterns and spelling generalisations to spell new words
Explore less common plurals, and understand how a suffix changes the meaning or grammatical form of a word
Draws on appropriate strategies to accurately spell familiar and unfamiliar words when composing texts
Extends Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary through interacting, wide reading and writing, morphological analysis and generating precise definitions for specific contexts
Fluently reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes, analysing text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension
Automatically applies taught phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies when spelling in a range of contexts, and justifies spelling strategies used to spell unfamiliar words
Understand how to use banks of known words, syllabification, spelling patterns, word origins, base words, prefixes and suffixes, to spell new words, including some uncommon plurals