Helpers

I want to tell you about my helpers.

First, there are the two overqualified, graduate-degreed, creative, patient moms and entrepreneurs who have stepped up to help me better serve the LEX community. One is local, April, and helps me with materials and shipping. The other, Brenda, is a few states away and helps with LEXinars, communication, scheduling, and certificates. I so appreciate that their capable assistance not only helps in the present, but also helps grow this work for the future.

Second, there is a clever and slightly obsessed bilingual teacher who has taken faster to real word study than any adult I’ve seen yet. Scott Mills has been working at lightning speed to discover and understand word structure, cognates, lexical doublets, reconstructed historical roots, and their pathways over time. Since the original, invaluable Matrix Study Sheets are out of print, Scott has been helping to research and develop a new, 2nd edition complete with more etymological study and a special diachronic appendix.

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The LEX Matrix Study Sheets ~ 2nd Edition features more than 25 lexical word matrices in an expanded format, including their etymological relatives, and questions for further study. Targeting many of the common base elements of classical origin often misidentified in traditional phonics and “morphological” study, this softcover book includes both free and bound bases, unitary and twin bases, Latinate combining forms, and other associated bases. Useful for personal study, lesson planning, or direct instruction — including that special appendix.

 

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Third, since helpers are on my mind, I decided it’s high time for my InSights into Auxiliaries, also known as “helping verbs.” This fifth InSight deck is a study inspired by all the teachers, tutors, and homeschooling parents who wish they better understood just what an auxiliary verb is and what it does, with straightforward examples and descriptions. This deck features fifteen cards with English auxiliary verbs and verbal constructions. If you can’t tell a linking verb from a helping verb, this deck can help!

Both of these helpful new resources are now available in my LEX Store at an Early Bird discount for pre-order, and they will ship upon publication later this summer. I’ll also be announcing an Auxiliary Verb LEXinar later this year.

I love this stuff. I can’t help it.

 

 

12 Comments

  1. David Hornsby says:

    Hi there. I’ve tried to order your Matrix Study Sheets (2nd edn) but the online form will only accept US addresses and phone numbers. I’ve tried several times, but your form over-rides anything I do. Are the materials available to me in Australia? Many thanks, David Hornsby [email protected]

  2. Pete says:

    Whoa! So excited to see these new resources and this kind of team work inspiring and generating it. I love my Matrix Study Sheets book now, but I know what comes next will take that work from some time ago and push it way forward. And, indeed, I know I need help with my auxiliaries!

    Yay!

  3. Caroline Francois says:

    These resources look brilliant. Unfortunately, it says in your LEXstore that they are only shipped to the US. How could I have some delivered to Europe?

  4. Lisa Barnett says:

    YES!! Can’t wait to get my hands on these because I know what they will do for my understanding!

  5. Best materials on Earth.

  6. SHARON COOK says:

    Can these be ordered and then downloaded digitally? That would be so great for my needs – rather than waiting for a hard copy to be mailed.

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