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  Set
includes Lesson Planbook, Practice
and Assessment Masters, and Instructional
CD, with permission
to copy for single classroom use. The
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Curriculum
Goals, Usage, and Pacing:
- Become
linguistically aware
and word conscious
- Chunk words into their meaningful morphemes: prefix, root, suffix
- Learn the meaning of the most common prefixes and roots
- Explore word clues revealed through the meaning of the prefix or root
- Develop academic
language through
word roots, analogies,
word families, synonyms, and antonyms
- Improve spelling skills, fluency, vocabulary, and ultimately, comprehension
- Analyze the derivational suffixes and the role they play in function (i.e., most words ending in -ity are abstract nouns, as in purity, simplicity, masculinity)
- Analyze the structure of academic and specialized content vocabulary
Curriculum Components
and Design:
- Book: The actual teaching
content. is found
on the CD, located in
the back of the book. The
book contains the
plans for each lesson
and provides
thumbnails of the content
located on the CD, as
well as thumbnails of
the reproducible
blackline practice pages, along
with answer keys. Each
lesson plan in this
book is structured to
contain standards-based objectives, a warm-up activity,
teaching suggestions,
and practice or
assessment ideas.
- Instructional Pages
on Compact Disk (CD): rich in content,
containing each new
morpheme in context.
Formatted in large
font for overhead
transparency use. Mac
or PC ready. The
CD is the key
component.
- Additional Practice
on Reproducible Pages:
for extra application and extension,
as well as
assessment.
Suggested Pacing:
- 10 or 15 minutes a day for
~165 school days (~20 for intensive
instruction)
- Teach a lesson one day (82 lessons total)
and provide the practice page the next day
as warm-up work
- Occasionally, apply skills with the suggested games and activities
- Use the assessments provided and monitor
progress as needed
Summer School or After School:
- 40 minutes a day
- Teach two or three lessons each day
(shorten each one)
- Teach the prefixes and roots,
skip most of the suffixes,
unless grammar is a
weak spot
- Follow each lesson with opportunities to practice and apply
in context
- Use the practice pages, suggestions for games and activities, and student reading materials
- Use the assessments provided
Note:
Keep in mind
the notions of developing
word consciousness and
constructing networks of
related words. Try not to get
caught up in memorizing
meanings, especially for
abstract suffixes, because they don't
always "fit" and
then what shall we do??
Instead, provide
opportunities for your
students to practice using
morphemic cues,
along with context clues, to
solve unknown vocabulary.
Above all, keep it playful
and exploratory.
I have developed a seminar
related to the materials in this book.
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Teacher
Feedback
| Grades
4/5: I have been using your book,
Vocabulary Through
Morphemes, this year. My class has transformed into
a classroom of word wizards! I spoke to you briefly at the CORE Conference in S.F. this year. I have basically extended the use of the book providing more exposure to the words and meanings with fluency drills, and using lessons as our spelling program in my
4/5 combination
classroom.
Thank You! ~Pam Smedley, Sierra Schools,
California |
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School: I
have loved being able to
use
Vocabulary through Morphemes
both with my "gifted
and talented" students
and my reading
intervention class. With
different instructional
guidelines, both
6th grade groups
have been able to
successfully build their
vocabulary and
understanding of affixes
and roots. I have also
REALLY appreciated having
this type of pre-organized
and ready to use
instructional
material. ~Karen
Romney, Clover Middle
School |
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| High
School Summer School: I'm teaching
summer school and I'm using
your book Vocabulary
Through Morphemes.
It is absolutely wonderful.
I love that I am able to
to tie my knowledge of Language!
with your curriculum.
It supports the instructor and
I see that the students
seem to be challenged but
excited about learning the
content as well. They
really got a kick out of the
introduction and the history
of the English language.
~Grace Kevorkian, Pasadena High |
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| High
School: I love this book! Now I have a step-by-step plan to follow, and the short segments are so easy to use and not time-consuming. It really
is a user-friendly book! I wish that I had had it last year! Thank you so much for developing the materials. They really are a gift to
teachers everywhere!
~Lisetta Wallace, Intervention
Reading Teacher, Tracy High
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