Morpheme Magic: Lessons to Build Morphological Awareness for Grades 4-12

by Deb Glaser

Morpheme magic will open up a world of anticipation and delight for teachers and their students as they discover the magic of morphemes together.

Most teachers have a good sense of what morphology is and what morphemes are, but how to teach morphological awareness? Research regularly highlights a strong relationship between the awareness of morphemes and spelling, writing, comprehension, vocabulary knowledge, and reading proficiency. With Morpheme magic creating awareness of morphemes is no longer a challenge. These carefully designed lessons apply elements of research on how the reading brain develops a mapping of the visual meaningful parts of words to meaning. The attractive wall cards are full of information with keywords and pictures to help students recall the morphemes and recall word families that will grow their vocabularies for each morpheme.

Genres: Education

Reviews

[Scholarly Pursuits]

Teaching guide with activity suggestions for morphological awareness: suffixes (13 chapters), prefixes (19 chapters), roots (18 chapters), Greek combining forms (2 chapters), high-frequency word lists.

Meant to be worked through from beginning to end, but there is no impediment to selective use of chapters.

[Renee Ward · Rating 4 out of 5]

Morpheme Magic by Deb Glaser tells how important morphemes are in understanding words and becoming a better reader and writer. It lays out the plan to systematically introduce phonemes to students, which helps them understand the meanings of these word parts and how they work together to change meaning. It also encourages students to learn the etymology of words and roots which will help in their understanding and spelling of the words. I think this system is a great way to teach work parts to students that will keep them engaged and learning.

[Kristina Mullen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book! Exactly what I was looking for to supplement my reading curriculum.