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Making Literacy REAL for everyone! |
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Words! Literacy Club |
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Our Skite Site |
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The members of “Words!” work very hard in developing their understanding and mastery of the language. These investigations are a tribute to that. |
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One of our challenges prompted in this investigation—the results are on their way. |
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An early investigation prompted by the question why <bought> and not <*buyed>? Why indeed! |
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Every member of “Words!” is a word detective and as such gets involved in conducting some amazing investigations. This ‘Skite Site’ is where we show off the brilliant work that has been achieved in the tutorials, club sessions and at home. The only criteria needed for our members to have their work displayed here is that the investigation work was done by the students themselves and they are willing to have that work published. The investigations are posted as they are completed. Each item below gives a brief description of the investigation and the contributor responsible. Access is only available once contributors have given their permission or the investigation is completed. |
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When Sean Andrews (April 2005) analysed this twin base, he discovered an extended family spanning 700 years. |
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While working on the phonology of the letter <c>, Tristan posed an hypothesis relating the phoneme /s/. |
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A Forum question prompted the investigation into this base element. |
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An example of Real Script in action and the use of a matrix to synthesis words. By Allegra Yardeny, March 2006 |
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The meaning of words can change remarkably over time as this investigation demonstrates. |
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A Word Web for <speci> |
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This analysis came from a recital of one of Aesop’s Fables. It shows why just being able to announce the words is not enough. |
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A misspelling by a pioneering Word Detective—Jun Kyu— resulted in this comprehensive analysis. |
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Fahreen and Anushka took on the monumental task of analysing the phonology of <ugh> in May & June 2007. |
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The Old English trigraph <ugh> |
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Two of Words! earliest members, Jeremy and Kobi worked on this investigation back in September 2005. |
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Andrés and Francisco are brothers and had a couple of attempts at this investigations (May 2006). |
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One of our Words! Analyses—this is an investigation conducted by six students over more than half a year. |
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Why there is no suffix <*-tion> |
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Francisco’s analysis of the word <vegetation> uncovered an interesting denotation. |
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Another of Danny’s twin base investigations, this time with a French connection. |
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An early investigation by Danny to find the connection to between <evolution> and a <revolver>. |
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Words! Literacy Club is copyright © Lesley Catterall 2003-2007 All rights reserved. |
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We did it! |
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A question from a 10 yr old at the International School of Zug prompted this analysis. |
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The history of <catch> and how the past tense and participle came to be <caught> not <*catched>. |
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A child’s misspelling prompted this analysis and demonstrates why knowing an little etymology can be very useful. |
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The base <custode> versus <custard> |
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A forum enquiry set off a change of events that led to this investigation. |
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Knowing when to use a spelling can be useful, Timothy wanted to find out if there was a pattern to the use of <wh>. |