Overview
Part of The Morphology Kit® Professional Learning Series, this course builds the word-structure knowledge instructors need before teaching morphology well:
- how complex words are built
- why English spelling represents both sound and meaning
- what makes suffixes uniquely demanding for students.
Through worked examples and clear terminology, you'll examine free and bound bases and their multiple forms, assimilated ("chameleon") prefixes and the double letters they explain, inflectional and derivational suffixes, connecting vowels, the three suffix conventions, and the Anglo-Saxon, Latin, and Greek layers of English.
Participants will leave with the foundational knowledge that makes explicit morphology instruction possible.
Learning Outcomes
Participants will learn how to:
- Define morphemes, bases, affixes, and connecting vowels, and identify them within multisyllabic academic words.
- Explain why English is morphophonemic and how word meaning supports spellings that pronunciation alone cannot.
- Recognize common Latin bases and their variant forms, and use those relationships to support reading and spelling.
- Distinguish inflectional from derivational suffixes and explain why derivational suffixes require greater instructional attention.
- Apply the three suffix conventions and recognize how language-layer patterns signal spelling and word origin.
Who is this designed for?
- Classroom teachers
- Reading specialists
- Interventionists
- Special educators
- Speech-language pathologists
- Instructional coaches
- Tutors
- Homeschool educators
Certificate of Completion
Participants will receive a Certificate of Completion documenting 1hr of professional learning.
Participants are responsible for confirming acceptance with their credentialing or licensing organization