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Word Families

Additional Word Study Ideas

Compound Words

Affixes

Root Words

Compound Words

A beginning morphemic analysis activity would be analyzing compound words. Some compound words such as “butterfly” are two words put together that create a new word with a new meaning; however, when segmented into two individual words the words “butter” and “fly” are not related to the word “butterfly” in any way.

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Compound Words

Affixes

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Affixes

Another word analysis activity can be done with affixes (prefixes and suffixes). When students can identify and know the meaning of affixes attached to base words, they become increasingly independent in word recognition of longer, unfamiliar words.

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Root Words

Greek and Latin roots are deeply embedded in the English language. It is important to instruct students on these meaningful word parts so that they have the ability to independently analyze the meanings of unfamiliar words.

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Word Families

Another word analysis lesson could include word families. Word families are groups of words that all share the same root word. For example, the following words are all a part of the same word family: helped, helper, helping, and unhelpful.

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