Growing Vocabulary with Morphology
- Select a few critical words to teach.
- Introduce words by providing them in written form.
- Ask students to work with a partner to use their word attack skills to determine the pronunciation and meaning the words.
- Students will break the words into chunks using syllables to be able to pronounce the words.
- They will then break the words into morphological parts to determine the meanings for each morpheme.
- Then, put the meanings together to get the meaning of the entire word.
- Students share the word meanings and their work with the class.
Rules for reading a word matrix:
- Read a matrix from left to right.
- Make only single, complete words from a matrix.
- Only build words you can use in a sentence.
- You don’t have to take an element from every column of a matrix – BUT..
- You must not ‘leapfrog’ over a column.
- WATCH THE JOINS! Sometimes changes happen where you add a suffix.