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Learning the building blocks of words – sounds, their spellings, and word parts

cooperative (coop)

coopt

entozoon

epizooty

oocyst

oocyte

oogamy

oogeny

oogonium

oolite

oologist

oosperm

oospore

ootheca

zooid

zoology

zoophyte

zootomy

When digraphs ain’t digraphs
When working on decoding and spelling two-syllable words with a student, I often use the TRUGS deck 4 cards, which include the word “mishap”. Invariably, my students parse this as “mish-ap”, rhyming the first syllable with “fish”. At first this made me want to get out my correction tape and replace “mishap” with a word […]

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