ACELA1779

Understand how to use knowledge of letter patterns including double letters, spelling generalisations, morphemic word families, common prefixes and suffixes and word origins to spell more complex words

Elaborations

• applying generalisations for adding affixes, for example ‘hope’ and ‘hoping’, ‘begin’ and ‘beginning’, ‘country’ and ‘countries’ (Skills: Literacy)
• building morphemic word families and exploring word origins, for example the prefix ‘nat’ means source, birth or tribe in ‘nature’, ‘natural’ and ‘native’ (Skills: Literacy)
• building morphemic word families and exploring word origins, for example ‘tricycle’, ‘triangle’ and ‘triple’ (Skills: Literacy)
• using knowledge of common prefixes and suffixes to spell words and explore their meaning, for example ‘friendly’, ‘calmly’ and ‘cleverly’ and ‘misfortune’ (Skills: Literacy)

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