The < house > Family

I'm working with a tutoring client using Structured Word Inquiry (SWI) and today we looked at the < house > family. That means words that are built on the base < house >.

This base is not that great for talking about the three suffixing changes (toggle < y > to < i >, replaceable < e >, doubling the final consonant) but it is wonderful for talking about compound words AND for discussing the difference between an adjective and a noun.

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Here are the words we came up with; I'd love to know if you find more!

< house >

town + house

row + house

light + house

fire + house

sod + house

out + house

toll + house

tree + house

If you'd like a story to introduce this activity, I recommend Dandelions by Eve Bunting. It has a very vivid description of a sodhouse (aka soddie).

If you're interested in how SWI can be used in a Waldorf environment, my colleague Virginia Berg and I wrote an article about this. It can be found in the current issue of the Research Bulletin, published by the Research Institute for Waldorf Education.

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