Morphology+&+Advanced+Decoding

=Morphology & Advanced Decoding for High School English=

Inspiration- This is the original handout from the workshops I attended. []

Brain Warmer Questions:
Do you have students who are reading on a 4th grade level or lower? What interventions have you tried to help increase their reading skills? Have those interventions worked?

===Word Attack Skills- [|phonemic awareness], [|phonics] and morphological awareness skills that allow readers to decode, pronounce and understand words in print ===

Phonemic Awareness and phonics are critical to early language & literacy skill development. Morphemic awareness becomes increasingly important as students read at a third grade level and above.

Inspiration Handout- Page 8 provides a compact glossary of advanced word structure terms.

Phoneme- unit of sound Morpheme- unit of meaning The ability to recognize the difference and which one is at work while decoding is critical for struggling adolescent readers.

A bit about reading and word attack skills: [] A lot about morphological awareness and reading ability: []

Morphological Awareness Explicit Instruction
<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">Talking about word parts and breaking down words on occasion is not enough to make a difference for struggling adolescent readers. Explicit, systematic instruction on roots and affixes is a critical need for our struggling readers in high school.

<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">Inspiration Handout- <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">Page 14 provides a visual representation of common roots, affixes and connectives from Latin, Anglo-Saxon and Greek origin. <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">Pages 4-7 provide a suggested sequence for explicit instruction for morphological awareness for adolescent readers. <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">Pages 11-18 provide sample activities that can be used to introduce and reinforce explicit morphological awareness instruction. <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">**[|Word matrices] are a rigorous yet flexible instructional strategy and learning tool that can be scaffolded and differentiated for use during the process of gradual release during explicit morphological awareness instruction. <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">Page 19 provides a bibliography and links to resource websites for planning and executing morphological awareness instruction

<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">Glossary of reading terms: []