# MULTISENSORY TEACHING of Basic Language Skills

## ACTIVITY BOOK

## Contents

- Activity 1 Terms for Research and Multisensory Teaching.....1
- Activity 2 The Brain.....2
- Activity 3 Terms for Oral Language.....3
- Activity 4 Phonemes: Vowels.....4
- Activity 5 Clues for Identifying Word Origin.....5
- Activity 6 Identifying Word Origin.....6
- Try This 1 Sorting Words by Origin.....6
- Activity 7 Identifying Word Origin.....7
- Try This 2 Word Origin Concentration Game.....7
- Activity 8 Consonant Phonemes: Place of Articulation.....8
- Activity 9 Consonant Phonemes: Blocked, Partially Blocked, and Unblocked.....9
- Activity 10 Phonemes: Voiced and Unvoiced Consonants.....10
- Activity 11 Consonant Phonemes: Cognates.....11
- Activity 12 Consonant Phonemes: Continuant and Clipped.....12
- Activity 13 Phoneme Checklist.....13
- Activity 14 Phon
- Activity 29 Approach Strokes for Cursive Letters .....30
- Activity 30 Cursive Handwriting Stroke Descriptions .....31
- Activity 31 Handwriting Practice .....32
- Activity 32 Planning Lessons for Handwriting .....34
- Activity 33 Sound–Symbol Correspondences .....35
- Activity 34 Practice Words .....36
- Activity 35 Writing Dialogues to Make Words .....37
- Activity 36 Planning Lessons for Beginning Reading .....39
- Activity 37 Reading Patterns .....41
- Activity 38 Hard and Soft c and g .....43
- Activity 39 Letter Clusters .....44
- Activity 40 How Many Letters and How Many Graphemes? .....45
- Activity 41 How Many Letters and How Many Graphemes? .....46
- Activity 42 Vowel Pairs .....47
- Activity 43 Vowel-r Patterns .....48
- Activity 44 Syllable Type Definitions .....49
- Activity 45 Sorting Syllable
- Activity 72 Checkpoints for the Doubling Rule .....81
- Try This 11 Four-Leaf Clover .....82
- Activity 73 Analyzing Words for Spelling .....83
- Activity 74 Regular, Rule, Irregular for Spelling .....84
- Activity 75 Regular or Irregular for Reading and Spelling? .....85
- Activity 76 Planning Lessons for Spelling .....86
- Activity 77 Morphemes, Origins, Meanings, and Derivatives .....87
- Activity 78 Roots and Combining Forms .....88
- Activity 79 Syllables and Morphemes .....90
- Activity 80 Syllables and Morphemes .....91
- Try This 12 Word Part Concentration Game .....92
- Activity 81 Semantic Word Webs .....93
- Activity 82 Derivative Webs .....94
- Activity 83 Multiple Meaning Webs .....95
- Try This 13 Semantic Webs .....96
- Try This 14 Derivative Webs .....96
- Try This 15 Multiple Meaning Webs
- Appendix F Words for Six Syllable Types Chart.....139
- Appendix G Practice Words for Syllable Division.....141
- Appendix H Suffixes, Prefixes, Roots, and Combining Forms.....143
- Appendix I Rapid Word-Recognition Chart.....149
- Appendix J Four-Leaf Clover.....150
- Appendix K Word Webs.....151
- Appendix L Semantic Feature Analysis.....153
- Appendix M Word Profile.....154
- Appendix N Comprehension Passages.....155
- Appendix O Fraction Lotto.....163
- Appendix P Building Block Checklist for Effective Classroom Management.....164
- Answer Key .....167
- Activities Coordinated with Becoming a Professional Reading Teacher.....192
- References .....193

## About the Authors

**Suzanne Carreker, Ph.D.**
Chief Programs Officer at the Neuhaus Education Center, a non-profit organization in Houston, Texas, that has offered professional development in evidence-based reading methods to more than 60,000 teachers since its inception in 1980. Dr. Carreker has authored several multisensory curricula and journal articles.

**Judith R. Birsh, Ed.D.**
Has worked with students with dyslexia and emphasizes the importance of well-prepared teachers in the field of reading.

## ACTIVITY 5
### Clues for Identifying Word Origin

The Anglo-Saxon, Latin, and Greek languages greatly influenced written English. Identify the language layer that is characterized by the following letter patterns or word structures.

1. The consonant pairs gn, kn, and wr
2. Roots that end in ct and pt
3. Vowel pairs
4. Initial consonant clusters rh, pt, pn, and ps
5. Chameleon prefixes
6. Common, everyday words
7. The consonant cluster ch pronounced /k/
8. The letters c, s, and t pronounced /sh/
9. Medial y
10. Consonant digraphs ch, sh, th, and wh
11. The affixing of roots
12. Compound words
13. Combining forms
14. The affixing of base words
15. The consonant cluster ph pronounced /f/

## ACTIVITY 6
### Identifying Word Origin

Identify the origin—Anglo-Saxon, Latin, or Greek—of the following words:
1. scholar  _____________________________
2. that ____
3. phonograph ____
4. made ____
5. excellent ____
6. boat ____
7. conductor ____
8. barn ____
9. microscope ____
10. direction ____
11. transport ____
12. symphony ____
13. photograph ____
14. shipyard ____
15. manuscript ____

## ACTIVITY 7
### Identifying Word Origin

Identify the origin—Anglo-Saxon, Latin, or Greek—of the following words:
1. rhythm ____
2. lotion ____
3. reject ____
4. eruption ____
5. chorus ____
6. thermometer ____
7. gather ____
8. induction ____
9. wait ____
10. destruction ____
11. rhododendron ____
12. helpless ____
13. napkin ____
14. sympathy ____
15. football ____
16. illegal ____
17. conduct ____

### TRY THIS

Create a concentration game board using the template on page 137.