I introduced a new concept when we were spelling 'knowledge'. A student kept forgetting the letter 'd'. So I boxed 'dge' and asked the class what this phonological component represented. I stated that there are three letters that make one sound.
The student who came in mid-year....was the only one who said the correct answer.....'Trigraph'! I asked him how he came up with that answer....since everyone was surprised by his correctness. He said, " Well, Ms. L....you said that 'di' means 'two' like in digraph. And I know that 'tri' means 'three' so....I decided to say 'trigraph'.
I could feel in my heart the morphology angels beating their wings together in praise.
Love these moments!
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