Word Quest: curious

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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.

Bowers, P. N., & Kirby, J. R. (2010, April 30). Effects of morphological instruction on vocabulary acquisition. Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Retrieved December 18, 2021, from https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ879800

Bowers, P. . “SWI Online Classes and Free Weekly Drop ins (Various Dates 2018 2021), Bowers,https://www.wordworkskingston.com/WordWorks/Home.htmlPeter.TeachingHowtheWrittenWordWorks:UsingMorphological

Cooke, G.. (2018). LEX Grapheme Cards, Third Edition.

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.

Harper, D. (2001 2022). Etymonline Online Etymology Dictionary. Etymology dictionary: Definition, meaning and word origins. Retrieved December 18, 2021, from https://www.etymonline.com/

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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

Bowers, Pete. “Handouts for Spelling out Word Structure Real Spellers.” http://www.files.realspellers.org/PetesFolder/resources/Handouts_for_spelling_out_word_structure.pdf.WordWorks, Retrieved June 24, 2022

Ehri, L.C. The science of learning to read words: A case for systematic phonics instruction. Reading Research Quarterly, 55(1), S45 S60. Special Issue: The Science of Reading: Supports, Critiques, and Questions. https://ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/rrq.334

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

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