Nifty Thrifty Fifty

WEEK 1
Words to introduce:
composer, discovery, encouragement, hopeless, impossible, musician, richest, unfriendly
Words contained within the introduced words:
compose, pose, discover, cover, encourage, courage, hope, possible, music, rich, friendly,
friend
Words related by combining parts:
dispose, discourage, discouragement, enrich, enrichment, richly, uncover, hopelessly
WEEK 2
Words to introduce:
expensive, governor, impression, independence, submarine, transportation, unfinished
Words contained within the introduced words:
govern, impress, press, depend, marine, transport, port, finish, finished
Words related by combining parts:
express, expressed, expression, export, exported, exportation, governed, impressed,
pressed, depended, transported, inexpensive, import, imported, importation
Words students should be able to spell by using all word parts combined (week 1-2):
expose, exposed, composed, posed, discovered, covered, encouraged, uncovered, hoped,
transpose, transposed, government, compress, compression
WEEK 3
Words to introduce:
beautiful, classify, community, communities, electricity, happiness, prettier
Words contained within the introduced words:
beauty, class, unity, electric, happy, pretty
Words related by combining parts:
beautify, classiness, electrify, happier, unify
Words students should be able to spell by using all word parts combined (week 1-3):
impressionable, unimpressionable, classifiable, unclassifiable, governable, ungovernable,
transportable, portable, classification, electrification, communication, depressant,
important, classifying, hoping, encouraging, discovering, composing, finishing,
transporting, depending
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WEEK +
Words to introduce:
continuous, conversation, forgotten, nonliving, s,imming, unpleasant, valuable
Words contained within the introduced words:
continue, converse, forgot, living, live, s,im, pleasant, please, value
Words related by combining parts:
livable, unlivable, continuing, conversing, valuing
Words students should be able to spell by using all word parts combined (week 1-4):
impressionable, unimpressionable, classifiable, unclassifiable, governable, ungovernable,
transportable, portable, classification, electrification, communication, depressant,
important, classifying, hoping, encouraging, discovering, composing, finishing,
transporting, depending
WEEK -
Words to introduce:
dishonest, illegal, irresponsible, misunderstood, performance, rearrange, replacement
Words contained within the introduced words:
honest, legal, responsible, response, understood, perform, form, arrange, replace, place,
stood
Words related by combining parts:
displace, displacement, reform, rearrangement, misplace
Words students should be able to spell by using all word parts combined (week 1-5):
conform, conformity, inform, informed, informant, information, misinform, uniformed,
formation, formal, transform, transformation, performer, responsibility, responsive,
responsiveness, honesty, dishonesty, honestly, legally, illegally, responsibly, irresponsibly,
arranging, rearranging, placing, replacing, misplacing, report, reporter, refinish, relive,
repose, reclassify, revalue, recover, rediscover, electrical, displease, discontinue,
irreplaceable
WEEK .
Words to introduce:
deodori/e, different, employee, international, invasion, prehistoric, signature
Words contained within the introduced words:
odor, differ, employ, national, nation, invade, historic, history, sign
Words related by combining parts:
signal, design 0note pronunciation change for s 1, deploy
Words students should be able to spell by using all word parts combined (week 1-):
disposal, musical, continual, employer, employment, unemployment, unemployed,
employable, unemployable, difference, consignment, nationality, nationalities,
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internationali/e, interdependence, depress, depression, depressive, deport, deportation,
deportee, devalue, declassify, decompose, deform, deformity, prearrange, resign,
resignation, designation, significant, significance
WEEK 2
Words to introduce:
antifree/e, forecast, midnight, overpo,er, semifinal, supermar3et, under,eight
Words contained within the introduced words:
over, under, super, free/e, cast, night, po,er, final, mar3et, ,eight
Words related by combining parts:
overnight, overcast, over,eight
Words students should be able to spell by using all word parts combined (week 1-!):
free/er, free/ing, free/able, subfree/ing, underclass, overexpose, underexpose,
superimpose, undercover, forecaster, forecasting, miscast, antidepressant, overture,
deodorant, empo,er, empo,erment, po,erful, po,erfully, po,erfulness, finali/ing,
finali/ation, ,eighty, ,eightier, ,eightiest, ,eightless, undervalue, friendlier,
friendliest, friendliness, unfriendliness, unpleasantness, historical, historically,
expressive, impressive, repressive, invasive, noninvasive, invasiveness, hopefully,
hopelessly, predispose, predisposition, courageous
WEEK * and WEEK )
&tudents should no, be able to spell and analy/e the parts of all -4 ,ords5 "ver the next
t,o ,ee3s, the focus is prefixes, suffixes and the spelling changes that happen ,hen an
affix is added5
"re#i$es
6iscuss ho, ,hen prefixes are removed, they leave an independent ,ord5 !o,ever, discuss
that some ,ords begin ,ith ,hat loo3s li3e a prefix, but do not leave a recogni/able ,ord
,hen removed5 !elp students see ho, these are predictable spelling and pronunciation
chun3s rather than try to try to sho, students ho, to analy/e these ,ords for meaning
clues5
%u##i$es and &ndings
7ocus on a change in ho, and ,here the ,ords fit into a sentence5 6iscuss ho, the spelling
of the ,ord often determines the spelling of the suffix5 %ontinue to practice transferring
to other ,ords5
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