This is an asynchronous class, the lesson is pre-recorded. If you would like to enroll, please contact me. I will request payment via PayPal. Upon receipt of payment I will send you documents via email with the video link and the matrices your learner will use to build words. I will provide three weeks of answering questions or providing feedback from the date of enrollment. 

As you receive the full course content upon receipt of payment, refunds cannot be offered. 

This is an asynchronous class with pre-recorded lessons that learners can use at any time! 

 This class maximizes our knowledge of how the brain learns best; by making meaningful connections. Rather than studying a random list of words and trying to memorize them, this class takes learners through the process of building words together from a common base, and seeing how all the words that result share connections in spelling and in meaning.  Connections that will make them easier to remember, recognize and understand. 

   An introductory video lesson will explain to learners how to use a matrix to build words with bases, prefixes and suffixes. Your learner will also be provided with two separate documents that contain matrices they can use to build words on their own. The bases they will work with are:

Free Bases we will study in this class: do, help, busy, please, family

Bound Bases we will study in this class: stude, rupt, sect, clude, hap

  This word building will help students to practice and develop a variety of skills including:

• A fundamental understanding of how English spelling works; that its purpose is to communicate meaning as well as sound, and that letters can serve functions in words other than creating a sound.
• The impact of prefixes on the meaning of the base (do vs. redo vs. undo)
• The possible spelling impacts of adding suffixes to the base, including the chance to practice applying spelling rules, including when to drop a silent ? and when to double a final consonant
• How the meaning of the base carries over into the meanings of the new words that are built from it (side/sideways/besides)
• An understanding that spelling patterns and meaning are retained even when pronunciation shifts. (sign/signal, heal/healthy, act/action)
• An understanding that suffixes can affect a word's part of speech and usage in a sentence. 
• An understanding that knowing the meaning of the base can give you clues as to the meaning of the other related words
• The difference between a bound base and a free base

Structured Word Inquiry is an excellent strategy for learners with dyslexia as it removes the need to guess at a spelling, memorize lists of rules or rely on visual memory. Students study words in in the context of their word families; those words with whom they share a common base and therefore connections in spelling and meaning. Rather than being taught "tips and tricks" that overload working memory, students are taught to analyze words and that spelling is a system of logic and order.