"ROOT WORDS" by The Exclamation Marks

The Exclamation Marks are a writing group made of 6 children who are becoming awesome writers! Last week, we learnt that good writers edit their writing. Why? So it can be the best it can be. This week, we have been working on root words, as this can help us in our spelling. Next week, we're focusing more on bringing our writing ALIVE!


Our Audience: Anyone who wants to get better at spelling or who is interested in what we learn.  
Purpose/Reason for Writing: To teach others what we've learnt about root words.

Today in our small group writing session, we focused on a spelling rule that will help us in attempting words we need in our writing. Spelling is an important tool to help us express ourselves clearly.

Taylor said "I used to spell WANTED as WANTID because it sounded like an "i". Now I can spell it correctly because I know to look for the root word WANT and to add the -ED ending."

Grace said: "I have been learning about root words today. Like in LOOKED or LOOKING, the root word is LOOK."

Brenna said "I know that if you think about and write the ROOT WORD first, you just need to add the ending onto it and you have had a pretty good go at spelling a word you don't know!" 

Kaia said: "ROOT WORDS are the smaller word that bigger words are made from. Root words can be made into new words by adding endings like: -ed, -ing, -er, or beginnings like: in-, un-." 

Bronson said: "I found out that LEARNED is not spelled LERNT! It has the root word LEARN, so it's spelt LEARNED."

Shamus said: "I now know that if you don't know how to spell a word like PLAYED and it has a root word that you DO know (like PLAY), you just add -ED. I used to spell PLAYED as PLAYD! Now I get it!"

These are words we use LOTS in our writing!

LOOKed sounds like "lookt", but it isn't!
LISTENed sounds like "lisind", but is isn't!
WANTed sounds like "wontid", but it isn't!
PLAYed sounds like "plade" or "playd"  but it isn't!