Happy #morphememonday everyone!

Can you believe that today marks the one year anniversary of #morphememondays!?!

I created #morphememonday as a response to an article I read about the importance of morphological awareness. As I was reading the article, I remember thinking about how in my own teacher education program that morphological was not even brought up once. I knew about morphemes from my own experience in Orton-Gillingham tutoring growing up. I decided it was time to help other educators learn about morphological awareness. So I decided to focus on a few morphemes each week.

I hope you have enjoyed it so far and look forward to future conversations with everyone in the future. 

So, let’s turn our focus to this week’s morphemes.

Origin: Greek

Definition: idea

Examples: ideologue, ideoplasty, ideotheory, ideomotor, videographer

                    <ideo> + <graph> + <ic> +<al> + <ly> -> demographically

                    <ideo> + <gram> -> ideogram

                    <ideo> + <log> +  <ism> -> ideologism

                    <ideo> + <gen> + <ic> + <al> – ideogenical

  • Technically speaking <ideo> is a Greek combining form

  • This is a combining form that I may mention to younger students in context but it is not one I would focus on until the upper high school grades or even university because it is one that is not frequently used outside of academia

Origin: Latin

Definition: touch

Examples:  tactician, tangent, contingently, tactometer, actually

                     <in> + <tact> + <ness> -> intactness

                    <tact> + <ic> + <al> -> tactical

                    <tang> + <ent> -> tangent

                    <con> + <tact> -> contact

                    <tact> + <ic> + <ian> -> tactician

  • This is a common root that is regularly found in everyday language, I would teach it to students in the upper elementary or early high school grades because it will help them to find meaning in new words that they come across in reading.

  • It would be a great word to use for a word matrix assignment

Origin: Latin

Definition: a place where, of, having to do with

Examples: salary, disciplinary, honorary, centenary, imaginary

                    <bound> + <ary> -> boundary

                    <second> + <ary> -> secondary

                    <dict> + <ion> + <ary> -> dictionary

                    <diet> + <ary> -> dietary

                   <in> + <firm> + <ary>- infirmary

  • Words containing this suffix are either nouns or adjectives

  • This suffix should be explicitly taught to students at the end of elementary school or the beginning of high school. It provides a good opportunity to remind students about nouns and adjectives and how they relate to each other.

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