The front of each card in this deck offers a big-picture tapestry of a word family by way of an illustration. You’ll find etymons/roots on actual roots or stems, and Present Day English forms clustered together closer to the top like metaphorical berries or flowers. This is an invitation to visualize etymology, to see how Present Day English words have bloomed into existence, and to see actual relationships across a word family.

The back of each card considers the word through an interpretation of the Four Questions of Structured Word Inquiry (Bowers & Kirby 2010).

Truer Words Volume 4 invites scholars to explore the families of the words adventure, structure, literate, add, endurance, cycle, human, hydrate, radius and conversation.

There are ten cards in each deck, each lovingly handprinted by a local Portland printer onto beautiful stock. Every deck also comes with one informational concept card to help anchor your explorations.

This resource is designed to be accessible to anyone.

If you live outside of the U.S.A. and would like to order this product please contact Emily at emily@advantagemathclinic.com and tell her where you live and what you would like to order. As quickly as she can she’ll get back to you with a shipping estimate and (if you approve the shipping cost) an invoice that you can pay online. And then like magic you’ll get your Truer Words cards in your lil mailbox no matter where you live in this big beautiful world. <3