Apr 2, 2026 | Foundational Skills, Morpheme Lessons
To the Teacher Suffixation is a major process in the formation of words. Although prefixes are easier to learn, suffixes are more numerous. The suffixes -er, -or, and -ist are introduced first because they have a high frequency and easy-to-understand meanings. Of the...
Apr 2, 2026 | Morpheme Lessons, Uncategorized
Morpheme Monday Lessons is a weekly blog that develops morphemic analysis. The blog is designed for grades 3-4 and up but would be appropriate for any students in the upper grades who are not familiar with the morphemes being introduced. Past blogs are posted on...
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,...
