Mar 13, 2026 | Foundational Skills
Note to the Teacher This is the first post in a blog entitled “Morpheme Mondays.” In the blog I will provide discussions of morphemes and supply related activities. I will attempt to make the discussions relevant and engaging. The blog is designed for...
Mar 6, 2026 | Foundational Skills
Morphemic analysis has the power to accelerate students’ word knowledge with a minimum of time and effort. For instance, chances are your students know erase, pretend, and active, but might have difficulty reading the words erasure, pretension, and activate. In...
Jan 26, 2026 | Foundational Skills
Students’ ability to decode proficiently may depend on how well they teach themselves. According to the extensively researched self-teaching hypothesis, as students decode words that are unfamiliar in print, they match letters to sounds in order to read the...
Jul 13, 2022 | Foundational Skills
Along with being taught how to sound out words, students should be taught, from the earliest stages, the morphology of words. As I noted in the last blog, being aware of the underlying morphemic structures of words aids both reading and writing. For the word does,...
May 11, 2022 | Foundational Skills
Morphology: A Key Foundational Skill Initially, students are taught to use phonological information to read words. This works well for words such as hat and pet, which have spellings that are easily...
Apr 6, 2022 | Foundational Skills
Better Start Literacy The Better Start Literacy Approach has been highly successful in developing the literacy of year 1 (kindergarten) students with low language in New Zealand. Students provided with Better Start outperformed students taught with the schools’...
