Etymology and Orthographic Study

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Shannon and Mary host a returning guest to the Reading Teachers Lounge @MindfulTeacherRachel, who you heard in Season 5 on the Schwa episode.   In this episode, Shannon, Mary, and Rachel talk about English word histories and how they may inform how a word is spelled.   Check out this discussion to get ideas for how to share word origin stories with your reading students and help students see how important morphology is in addition to sound symbol connections.

RESOURCES MENTIONED DURING THE EPISODE

1. Online Etymology Dictionary
2. When is an O a Scribal O?
3. Literacy Nest resource for Scribal O
4. Scribal O video
5. Latin Connective I
6. Word Smarts: Van Cleave Vocabulary 
7. Connecting Vowels
8. Historical Layers of English: Reading Rockets
9. IG Post from Laura.Loves.Teaching:   English Language Layer Cake 
10. Scribal O slides by Laura Watkins 
11. Real Spelling Toolbox
12. Sounds & Syllables (Jason Wade) on Twitter
13. Word Origins by John Ayto *Amazon affiliate link
14. Once Upon a Word by Jess Zafarris *Amazon affiliate link
15. Beneath the Surface of Words by Sue Scibetta Hegland *Amazon affiliate link
16. And Sometimes Y by Rachel *Amazon affiliate link
17. Short Vowel Protectors by Rachel *Amazon affiliate link
18. Science of Reading book list (compiled by Rachel and others)
19. Contact Rachel on Twitter @TeachRachelSOR
20. contact Rachel on IG @MindfulTeacherRachel
21. contact Rachel on TikTok @TeacherRachelSORSEL
22. our SCHWA episode with Rachel from last season
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