Word Investigation

Word Investigation

Agenda

• Word inquistion• Wordology Flipbooks• Goal

– To learn and understand word elements and characteristics

Word Puzzle

• Put the words in the baggies into categories. Group the words based on similarities you see or hear within the word.– I will give you approximately 3-5

minutes to do this! Good luck!

Word Groups• What do your word groups look like?• This is what your groups should look like, with

some exceptions.

• Why do the word groups look like this?

Bash Oak Ship Clay Disagree Crater

Leg Date The Flour Childlike Emergency

Box Music Chin Snake Preventable Crazy

Pet Note Whole Grill Thankful Liberty

The word group categoriesShort Vowel

Long Vowel

Digraphs Blends Affixes Multi-Syllable

Bash Oak Ship Clay Disagree Crater

Leg Date The Flour Childlike Emergency

Box Music Chin Snake Preventable Crazy

Pet Note Whole Grill Thankful Liberty

We will now go over what each category is and what it means by creating a flipbook!

Please take notes so you can complete the activity on Friday!

Short Vowel

• Definition– When a word has short vowel letters, the word

will say the sound of the letter not the name.• Example

– Apple; notice the A is not pronounced at its name but as the sound of A

• Counter Example– Scale; notice the A in the word scale is

pronounced as its name not its sound.

Long Vowel

• Definition– When a word has long vowel letters, the word will

say the name of the letter not the sound.• Example

– Bike; notice the I says its name, not the sound of the letter I.

• Counter Example– Brick; notice the I says its sound, not its name.

Digraphs

• Definition– A digraph is when two letters come together to

form a single sound.• Example

– Shrimp; notice the S and the H come together to form a single sound.

• Counter Example– Slug; notice the S and L come together but you

can hear each sound individually. The two letters do not form one sound.

Blends• Definition

– A blend is a word that has two and three constant letter combinations. When the letters come together each letter’s sound is heard.

• Example– Street; notice you can hear each individual sound of the

letter S, T, and R in the word street. • Counter Example

– Chicken; although the two letters at the beginning are consonants, when they come together they form only one sound, you cannot hear the separate sounds of the C and H. If you did the word would be pronounced… Do you hear the blend in chicken though?

Affixes Prefix & Suffix

• Definition– An added element to a base word to form a new word.

• Example– Finished; notice the base word FINISH has the added element of

ED to make the word past tense. • Prefix

– An affix or element added before a base word• Unattractive; affix UN added to the beginning of the base

word ATTRACTIVE• Suffix

– An affix or element added at the end of a base word• Recycle; base word CYCLE with the added affix RE at the end.

Multi-Syllables

• Definitions– A syllable is the sound of a vowel (a, e, i, o, u) that's created when

pronouncing a word.– Multi-syllable is when you hear the sound of a vowel in a word

more than once.• Examples

– One syllable word• Cake; notice your chin only moves down once when you say

the word cake.– Multi-Syllable

• Diving; notice your chin moves down twice when you say the word diving.

Great Job!• That’s all the words for this session of

wordology! • Please turn your flipbooks in to me before you

leave so I can keep them for you so you will have them when we do the activity on Friday.

• Thanks for paying attention and have a great day!!!