1. Morphemes: Structural Clues for Word Meaning

2. Morphemes are the smallest unitsof meaning in English words. They are the base parts in compound words, the prefixes and suffixes, the Latin roots and the Greek combining forms.

3. Teachers need to know morpheme patterns. These patterns become the strategies students can use to decode, spell unfamiliar words and form the new words broading their vocabulary.

5. Suffixes are great ways to learn parts of speech. Noun endings: Adjective endings: Adverb ending: -ion -ive-ly -ist -est -or -ible

6. Students will need to learn when to double the final consonant, drop the final ‘e’ and change ‘y’ into ‘i’ when adding suffixes. mad/madder skate/skating baby/babies

7. If students know the meaning of Latinor Greek roots they can easily understand the translation of words which include such morphemes:

8. The morpheme spect comes from Latin “to see, to watch” Respect inspect spectator spectacular introspective spectacle

9. The Greek morphemes graph and gram meaning ‘written or drawn’ Phonograph autograph biography telegram phonogram

12. Some examples of lexical morphemes in English: Bases. Nouns: dog, word, chart, child. Verbs: have, be, touch, stay. Adjectives: silly, hot, strong.

13. Affixes. Prefixes: anti, con, di, pro. Suffixes:ness, ion, ity, or.