Use the words from the earlier activity (e.g., disappointed, trust, terrified, nervous, dangerous, perfectly safe, reassured, reassurance, surprised) to investigate the phoneme-grapheme patterns such as re, ur, ous and double letters such as ss, rr, pp.
Key questions:
• What do you notice about the letter patterns in each of the words?
• What sound do the letter patterns make?
• Can you identify the base?
• Does the word have any affixes?