curious
Meaning?
curious: eager to know or learn.
"Stanley squeezed between a slumbering SLOTH and a curious QUESTION."from Stanley and the Wild Words
cure + i + ous Latin cura “care, attention”
curious: giving attention to curiously: curiosity: incurious: cure: heal by attention or care accurate: exact due to sufficient care secure: safe and free from care curate: a priest taking care of his congregation; taking care of a collection
Etymology?
Relatives?
Meet the family…
Morphological relatives will share the same base element and meaning.
Source: Online Etymology Dictionary
Morphological Relatives?
curious à cure/ + i + ous
Structure?
Pronunciation? units
What
A grapheme is a written symbol (letter or string of letters) . One of its jobs may be to represent a sound (phoneme). “cure.” How many phonemes do you hear? job do you think the <e> grapheme has in <cure>?
Say
Explain what the following quote means to you:
“Be curious, not judgmental.”-WaltWhitman
Word Quest completed! What new questions do you Whathave?was surprising about the Now,investigation?“curious”sharewhat you’ve learned, as well as your stories and ideas, with others.
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Adoniou, Misty. (2019) “Literacy Leadership Brief: Teaching and Assessing Spelling.” International Literacy Association, https://www.literacyworldwide.org/docs/default-source/where-we-stand/il a-teaching-and-assessing-spelling.pdf.
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Bibliography/Resources
Problem Solving to Develop Students' Language Skills & Engagement with the Written Word. WordWorks Literacy Centre, 2006/2009/2013.
Hegland, S. S. (2021). Beneath the Surface of Words. Learning About Spelling.
Ramsden, N. (2011 2013). Mini matrix maker home page. Retrieved December 18, 2021, from Realhttp://www.neilramsden.co.uk/spelling/matrix/SpellingOnlineToolboxHome.RetrievedDecember 18, 2021, from https://www.tbox2.online/ Real Spelling SuffixChecker © Real Spelling & Pascal Mira 2009 : https://www.realspellers.org/images/stories/docs/SuffixChecker 2009.pdf
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Loveless, Rebecca blog and “SWI for Early Readers (Online Class)”. (Oct, 2020). Retrieved December 18, 2021, from Mrs.https://rebeccaloveless.com/Steven'sclassroomblog and “Intro to SWI Online Class (Feb. 2018)”. Retrieved December 18, 2021, from https://mbsteven.edublogs.org/swi class/
****I also recommend highly Patti Bottino Bravo's "Fun with Phonetics" and advanced phonetics classes. Contact her for further information at speechteach28@gmail.com