Strategies Morphology and Word meanings (14 pages)

What is morphology? (The second aspect of language form: meaning). Morphological development. Brown’s 14 grammatical morphemes and their order of acquisition. Reading: a complex cognitive-linguistic skillset & phrase work. Strategies: Vocabulary & word learning principles: an “affectionary”. A suffix sort. Suffix sort card. More information adding affixes. Box the suffixes and prefixes. Multi-sensory Introduction of Affixes. Introduction of roots & combining forms. Routine for morphological awareness & skill. (teach it/ practice it). Using part word clues. Common prefixes and suffixes. Latin roots: port form tract Greek roots: phone auto photo tele graph ology. Derivative web & word part bingo.