The word ‘peace’ can be used in many different ways it can be used. For example, we can...
🕊 make peace with a situation that has concerned us
🕊 wish that people we care about will rest in peace when they pass away
🕊 keep the peace when people around us disagree
🕊 feel at peace when our minds and bodies are calm
🕊 offer a peace offering to help repair a relationship
🕊 hope for world peace when we see conflict and suffering
🕊 speak peacefully when we want to solve a problem without causing causing conflict
🕊 look for peacefulness in a quiet place, a kind word, or a repaired relationship

This got me thinking about the family of words that the word peace comes from, centred around the free base <peace>.

This resource invites investigation of base <peace> across its word family where related words will share a spelling, a sense, and a history.

There is a focus on meaning, spelling, reading, and vocabulary development.

Students will also meet related compounds and phrases and the different ways they can be formed and written, such as peacemaker, peace-loving, and peace offering.