The document discusses strategies for teaching students morphology and improving vocabulary. It recommends teaching students root words, affixes, and their meanings. Students should learn how combining word parts can help determine a word's definition. Examples of activities include word bingo, building words from roots, and opportunities to practice their skills in the classroom. Engaging multiple learning styles, such as videos and games, can help students learn. The goal is for students to eventually be able to analyze word structures to determine meanings independently.

1. More than a
Vocabulary Lesson
DEVELOPING STRUCTURE ANALYSIS:
SARAH WHITTEN

2. Developing Word Structure
 Purpose: to improve word knowledge and vocabulary
 How to: Familiarizing students with the basics of morphology: affixes
and root words, as well as their meanings
 Future Help: Students will be able to utilize knowledge in future to
figure out word meanings by manipulating the different word part.
 (Fisher and Frey, 2012, p. 44-45)

3. Break it down
 Teach root words and their
meanings
 Teach affixes and their meanings
 Suffixes
 Prefixes
 Teach how by putting word
meanings together you can
manipulate and discover the
meaning of the combined word
 Fun activities to learn root words
such as: bingo lingo, building a
word, growing from root words
 http://www.internet4classrooms.c
om/grade_level_help/language_r
oot_words_language_arts_sixth_6t
h_grade.htm

4. Apply skill
Give students opportunities to utilize their skill within a
safe environment: within the classroom.
http://www.aasd.k12.wi.us/staff/boldtkatherine/readingf
un3-6/readingfun_prefixessuffixesroots.htm

5. Engage the students in more than
one learning style
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=ZOJrjNR7ZZM
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=H2Z4p0au1yk

6. Alliteration
Word Break Apart
and Meaning
Al: to/add (Latin)
Litera: Letter (Latin)
Tion: state (Latin)
http://dictionary.reference.co
m/browse/alliteration?s=t
Combining Word
Parts Meaning
State of adding Letters
Definition of Word
& Use
The literary device in which a
letter, mainly a consonant is
repeated
http://dictionary.reference.co
m/browse/alliteration?s=t