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 | Mar 30, 2020 | Morpheme Mondays
Throwback to our first #MorphemeMonday! blog post… You may be wondering what exactly #MorphemeMonday is: it is simply a day to bring awareness about the importance of morpheme instruction to parents and educators out there. Technically speaking, morphemes are...
by Dr. Garforth | Feb 10, 2020 | Morpheme Mondays
Happy #morphememonday everyone! Here is this week’s dose of morphological awareness. Definition: in, into, make Origin: Greek and Latin Examples: embattle, employ, embolism, enveloped, encompass, encircled <en> + <joy> + <ment> = enjoyment...
by Dr. Garforth | Dec 3, 2019 | Morpheme Mondays, Uncategorized
Happy #morphememonday everyone! I can’t believe it is December already. Where has the year gone? Now that it’s December, have you considered using this month as a teachable moment to teach the prefix <dec> discuss how the month December got its name? In...