Learning from Love

When children are investigating word structure we ask a few simple questions.

First we form a hypothesis on what the the structure of the word is, then we ask...

• What does it mean?
• What is its structure?
• Where does it come from?

When you are able to investigate words in this way then much harder looking words become more easily understood. The stories about the history of words often helps a word's spelling stick in long term memory.

Here we investigated the word <love> which on the surface has an unusual spelling and is often misspelled by many children. By creating word webs children not only learn the target word <love> but learn a lot about suffixing in general.

The history of the word shows why there is an <o> in <love>.

These are all part of the word family.

Beginning a word web.

A finished word web.