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Word Noticer Video Narratives

The Word Noticer Narratives are video stories that introduce and review essential orthographic concepts.    These stories are visually engaging for growing readers and writers of English.   Join in an orthographic quest with the main character, a Word Noticer, and treasure each learning adventure!

I. Introduction

  1. The Treasure Quest

  2. Growing Word Noticers

  3. Orthography: A Sensible System

  4. The Word Noticer: A Portrait Of My Tools

  5. Word Inquiry : The Four Questions

  6. Spell Out Loud: Announcing Word Structure

  7. The Word Sum: A Spelling Super Power

II. English Words Have Structure

  1. The Structure of English Words

  2. The Base

  3. Grapheme

  4. Digraph: A String of Two Letters

  5. Word Elements: Essential Ingredients

  6. Affix

  7. Unfixing Affixes: Cut to the Core

  8. Compounds

  9. Consonant Clusters

  10. Grapheme Choice: Significant Signs

III. English Words Have Families

  1. Finding Word Families

  2. Base vs. Root

  3. Graphemes: A Telling Tale

  4. Go Fish

  5. Let's Eat

  6. Vociferous

  7. The Leader In Me

IV. Look What Letters Can Do

  1. The Vowel Hand

  2. English Letters: The Raw Stuff

  3. A Final <e> Wears Many Hats

  4. Voiced and Voiceless

  5. The Story of <igh>​

IV. Writing Conventions and More

  1. The Homophone Principle

  2. Investigating Homophones

  3. Replace <e>: Go Below the Surface

  4. Double the Final Consonant

  5. The Toggle: <y> and <i>

  6. Content and Function Words

  7. Nouns: Words that Name

  8. Strong Verbs: Stood the Test of Time

  9. Agent Suffix

  10. Adjectives: Paint a Noun

  11. An Important Point: The Apostrophe

  12. Clause

  13. Denotation and Connotation: Journey with Words

  14. Figurative Language: Transform the Mind

  15. Onomatopoeia

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