Red Group
Fe > ves
Wife-wives
Life-lives
Leaf-leaves
Wolf-wolves
Knife-knives
Loaf-loaves
vowel change
foot-feet
woman-women
mouse-mice
tooth-teeth
goose-geese
no change
sheep
This week’s words are focusing on
deer
unusual plurals. When a noun ends in
a f/fe, we change the f/fe to ves. In
some nouns, we just change the
vowels and do not add an s. There are
some nouns that we do nothing to
them.
Yellow Group
Au
Saucer
Author
August
Autumn
Laundry
Caution
Faucet
Sausage
Auction
Haunted
aw
awful
awkward
lawyer
awesome
gnawed
gawking
flawless
al
also
always
almost
although
already
oddball
laughed
all right
Blue Group
-er
Speaker
traveler
prisoner
defender
believer
attacker
admirer
-or
creator
visitor
decorator
director
inventor
survivor
-ian
guardian
Asian
historian
Australian
librarian
civilian
-ist
artist
Finalist
terrorist
specialist
vocalist
This week’s words are focusing again
on accented syllables (au, aw, al). All
three sounds, even though they are
spelled different, they are all the
same sound.
We are still working with noun
suffixes. When we add the following
endings to nouns, the base word
changes from a noun or verb to a type
of person.
Green Group
Quadr/quarQuartet
Quarter
Quadrangle
Quadruped
Quadruple
Quadruplets
quint/pentquintet
quintuplets
quintessence
quintessential
pentagon
octoctet
octagon
octave
decdecimal
decathlon
decade
decimate
We are working with number prefixes. These
prefixes come from Greek and Latin words.
Quadr/quar-means four, quint/pent-means
five, oct-means eight, dec-means ten, centmeans one hundred
centcentimeter
century
centigrade
centennial
bicentennial
percentage