Atlanta Marriott Buckhead Hotel & Conference Center
The Orton Gillingham Academy conference is a dedicated forum centered around the Principles of the Orton-Gillingham Approach. Our presenters offer expertise tailored to beginning practitioners and seasoned educators. Our goal is that you leave the conference with new skills to share in class on Monday and a heightened awareness of the impact the Orton-Gillingham Approach has on struggling readers.
English has many related bases with similar but not identical spellings. Understanding the origins of these bases and why we have alternant forms is critical knowledge for anyone working with morphology or trying to understand English spelling. Come and learn about these Latinate roots!
CT, F/FIT, RS, TU; PS, MS, HS, AD; INTER, ADV
Have you ever had a student ask, “why does the <d> in explode change to an <s> in explosion?” Perhaps they have pondered if there might be a ‘drop <d>’ convention like the ‘drop <e>’ suffixing convention” Or maybe they have been confused as to why reduction has a <t> but reducing does not. They may even understand that these are different bases but wonder why we have two different forms. English has many examples like this where the spelling of related bases is similar but not identical. Understanding where English bases come from and how we have come to have alternant forms is critical knowledge for anyone working with morphology or trying to understand English spelling. Investigating the origins of words is not only an interesting pursuit in and of itself, but a powerful and necessary part of understanding English orthography. Participants will use tools to explore synchronic and diachronic relationships between words that have similar but not identical bases and bump into topics such as contractions, orthographic conventions, combining forms, and how pronunciation shifts over time.
If you attended my session either in-person or virtually and would like the detailed slides handout, please email me for the link and password!
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