When a third grade student asked how to spell the word telescope, the teacher told her to think it out. What steps could the student take to "think out" the spelling of that word?
What will be an ideal response?
When children "think out" the spelling of a word, they consider factors such as root words, affixes, phonological information, and spelling patterns. To spell the word telescope, the child could draw upon knowledge of words with the morpheme tele such as telephone and television. She could also apply the CVCe pattern (consonant-vowel-consonant-silent e) to spell the second syllable, scope.
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