by Dr. Garforth | May 11, 2020 | Morpheme Mondays
Happy #morphememonday everyone! Alright, now back to this week’s morphemes. As a reminder, a morpheme is the smallest unit of meaning in the English language. A prefix is a morpheme found at the beginning of a word. A root is a morpheme that provides the...
by Dr. Garforth | May 4, 2020 | Morpheme Mondays, Reading Science
What is Morphological Awareness? Morphological awareness is an understanding of the morphemic patterns in words and knowledge of what the morpheme means. The English language is full of polysyllabic words that contain prefixes and suffixes to extend and expand the...
by Dr. Garforth | Sep 23, 2019 | Morpheme Mondays
Happy #morphememonday everyone! I hope you are enjoying the journey to learn more about morphology by learning more about the different prefixes, roots, and suffixes found in the English language. Teaching etymology and morphology to all students from a young age...
by Dr. Garforth | Sep 9, 2019 | Morpheme Mondays, Uncategorized
Happy #morphememonday everyone! I hope you found some way to promote literacy yesterday on UNESCO’s International Literacy Day. If you didn’t, there is no reason you can’t find a way to promote literacy any other day of the year. So in my efforts to...
by Dr. Garforth | Aug 19, 2019 | Morpheme Mondays
Happy #morphememonday! It is the time of the year that many students are starting to head back to school after summer break. This year, why not make sure students learn some new morphemes. This can be done both at home and at school. The more morphologically aware an...
