Words Their Way: Word Sorts for Derivational Relations Spellers

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Overview
Level 1 Basic Derivational Relations
	Unit I: Suffixes and Prefixes
		Notes for the Teacher
		Unit Spell Check 1 and Assessment for Meaning of Prefixes
		Sort 1 Comparative Suffixes (‐er, ‐est)
		Sort 2 Suffixes (‐y, ‐ly)
		Sort 3 Suffixes (‐ment, ‐less, ‐ness)
		Sort 4 Prefixes (un‐, in‐, dis‐, mis‐)
		Sort 5 Prefixes (pre‐, fore‐, post‐, after‐, re‐)
		Unit Review and Assessment
	Unit II: Derivational Suffixes
		Notes for the Teacher
		Unit Spell Check 2
		Sort 6 Suffixes (‐ty, ‐ity)
		Sort 7 Adjective Suffixes (‐ful, ‐ous, ‐ious)
		Sort 8 Noun Suffixes (‐er, ‐or, ‐ian, ‐ist)
		Sort 9 Suffixes (‐ary, ‐ery, ‐ory)
		Sort 10 Suffixes (‐al, ‐ial, ‐ic)
		Sort 11 Verb Suffixes (‐en, ‐ise, ‐ify)
		Unit Review and Assessment
	Unit III: The Suffix ‐ion
		Notes for the Teacher
		Unit Spell Check 3
		Sort 12 Adding ‐ion to Base Words, No Spelling Change
		Sort 13 Adding ‐ion and ‐ian, No Spelling Change
		Sort 14 Adding ‐ion, e‐drop and Spelling Change
		Sort 15 Adding ‐ation, ‐cation and ‐ition
		Unit Review and Assessment
	Unit IV: Spelling‐Meaning Patterns 1
		Notes for the Teacher
		Unit Spell Check 4
		Sort 16 Consonant Alternation
		Sort 17 Vowel Alternation: Long to Short
		Sort 18 Vowel Alternation: Long to Short or Schwa
		Unit Review and Assessment
	Unit V: Latin and Greek Word Parts 1
		Notes for the Teacher
		Unit Spell Check 5 and Assessment for Meaning of Latin and Greek Word Parts
		Sort 19 Latin Roots: Speaking, Hearing and Seeing (dict, aud, vis)
		Sort 20 Latin Roots: To Look, Carry and Shape (spect, port, form)
		Sort 21 Greek Word Parts: Sound, Light, Write and Distance (phon, photo, graph, tele)
		Sort 22 Greek Word Parts (therm‐, meter/metre, geo‐, ‐scope, ‐logy/‐ology, bio‐)
		Unit Review and Assessment
	Unit VI: Spelling‐Meaning Patterns 2
		Notes for the Teacher
		Unit Spell Check 6
		Sort 23 Adding Suffix ‐ity: Vowel Alternation, Schwa to Short
		Sort 24 Vowel Alternations: Long, Short and Schwa
		Sort 25 Adding ‐ion: Vowel Alternation with Spelling Change
		Sort 26 Multiple Alternations
		Unit Review and Assessment
	Unit VII: Latin and Greek Word Parts 2
		Notes for the Teacher
		Unit Spell Check 7 and Assessment for Meaning of Latin and Greek Word Parts
		Sort 27 Latin Roots: Actions (tract, gress, rupt, mot)
		Sort 28 Latin Roots: Actions (fract, flect/flex, ject, mis/mit)
		Sort 29 Latin Roots: The Hand Writes, Makes and Builds (man, scrib/script, fac, struct)
		Sort 30 Latin Roots: To Lead, Turn and Carry (duc/duct, ver/vert, fer)
		Sort 31 Latin Prefixes (intra‐, inter‐, intro‐, circum‐)
		Unit Review and Assessment
	Unit VIII: Spelling‐Meaning Patterns 3
		Notes for the Teacher
		Unit Spell Check 8
		Sort 32 Suffixes (‐ent/‐ence, ‐ant/‐ance)
		Sort 33 Suffixes (‐ent/‐ence/‐ency, ‐ant/‐ance/‐ancy)
		Sort 34 Suffixes (‐able/‐ible)
		Sort 35 Adding ‐able and ‐ible (e‐drop; y to i)
		Sort 36 Prefix Assimilation (in‐)
		Sort 37 Accent and Doubling
		Unit Review and Assessment
Level 2 Advanced Derivational Relations
	Unit IX: Latin and Greek Word Parts 3
		Notes for the Teacher
		Unit Spell Check 9 and Assessments for Meaning of Latin and Greek Word Parts
		Sort 38 Latin Root and Prefixes: Good and Bad (bene, mal‐); Before and After (ante‐, post‐)
		Sort 39 Number Prefixes (mono‐, uni‐, bi‐, tri‐)
		Sort 40 Number Prefixes (quadr‐/quar‐, quint‐/pent‐, oct‐, dec‐, cent‐)
		Sort 41 Latin and Greek Word Parts: Size and Beyond (micro‐, mega‐, super‐, hyper‐)
		Sort 42 Latin and Greek Word Parts: How Much? (poly‐, equi‐, omni‐, magni‐, min/mini‐)
		Sort 43 Latin and Greek Word Parts: The Body from the Head to the Feet (cap, corp, dent/dont, ped/pod)
		Sort 44 Latin and Greek Word Parts: Earth, Stars, Air and Water (terr, astr/aster, aer, hydr)
		Sort 45 Latin Roots: Belief, Endings and Beginnings (cred, mort, gen)
		Sort 46 Latin Roots: Coming Apart, Coming Together and Breathing (sec/sect, ven/vent, junct, spir)
		Sort 47 Latin Roots: Judging, the Book, Reading, the Law and Measure/Manner (jud, biblio, leg, mod)
		Unit Review and Assessment
	Unit X: Latin and Greek Word Parts 4
		Notes for the Teacher
		Unit Spell Check 10 and Assessments for Meaning of Latin and Greek Word Parts
		Sort 48 Latin and Greek Roots: Language and the Mind (voc/voke, ling/lang, mem, psych)
		Sort 49 Latin and Greek Roots: Feeling, Sensing, Healing (path, sens/sent, med/medi, sol)
		Sort 50 Latin Roots: Actions (press, pur/purg, fus, pend)
		Sort 51 Latin Roots: Standing and Placing (pos, loc, sist, sta/stat/stit)
		Sort 52 Latin Roots: Actions and a Letter (ced/cess/ceed, ten/tend, lit)
		Sort 53 Latin Prefixes (de‐, in‐, ex‐)
		Sort 54 Latin Prefixes (sub‐, com‐, pro‐, en‐)
		Sort 55 Predictable Spelling Changes in Word Roots (ceiv/cept, tain/ten, nounce/nunc)
		Unit Review and Assessment
	Unit XI: Prefix Assimilation
		Notes for the Teacher
		Unit Spell Check 11
		Sort 56 Prefix Assimilation (com‐)
		Sort 57 Prefix Assimilation (sub‐, dis‐)
		Sort 58 Prefix Assimilation (ex‐, ob‐)
		Sort 59 Prefix Assimilation (ad‐)
		Unit Review and Assessment
	Unit XII: Miscellaneous Sorts
		Notes for the Teacher
		Sort 60 Words from French
		Sort 61 Greek Spelling Features
		Sort 62 Cognates
		Sort 63 Greek and Latin Plurals
		Sort 64 British and American Words
		Sort 65 Collective Nouns
		Sort 66 Our Evolving Language
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