{"id":6653,"date":"2015-06-22T16:02:29","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T20:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communityreading.org\/wp\/?p=6653"},"modified":"2015-06-22T16:07:06","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T20:07:06","slug":"day-4-using-the-word-matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communityreading.org\/wp\/day-4-using-the-word-matrix\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 4 &#8211; Using the Word Matrix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daijon practiced blending \/ah\/ and \/ih\/ words for about 20 minutes, rough but slowly getting stronger.<\/p>\n<p>But today\u2019s video isn\u2019t about him; instead we demonstrate the Word Matrix tool (part of SPELLING).\u00a0 English spelling builds complex words from bases and a small number of affixes, for example \u2018unreportable\u2019 is built from the base \u2018port\u2019.\u00a0 Reading and spelling these words is relatively simple once you see the patterns.\u00a0 This video finds more \u2018port\u2019 words.<\/p>\n<p>Our words are fossils that tell us stories about history, science, and social constructs.\u00a0 Bases and affixes carry the meaning of a word, often in surprising ways.\u00a0 The rules of connecting affixes govern how words are spelled.\u00a0 Check it out.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6KMx4fkRkzY?rel=0\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daijon practiced blending \/ah\/ and \/ih\/ words for about 20 minutes, rough but slowly getting stronger. But today\u2019s video isn\u2019t about him; instead we demonstrate the Word Matrix tool (part of SPELLING).\u00a0 English spelling builds complex words from bases and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communityreading.org\/wp\/day-4-using-the-word-matrix\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityreading.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6653"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityreading.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityreading.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityreading.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityreading.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communityreading.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityreading.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityreading.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityreading.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}