Morphology demonstration: Adding un- prefix

Overview

Literacy specialist Elaine Stanley demonstrates how to teach a morphology lesson for adding the un- prefix.

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Resources mentioned in the video

Morphology lesson slides: un- prefix [0:28]

Morphology lesson student worksheet: un- prefix [0:28]

Who is this video for?

Foundation to Year 2 teachers; school leaders

What will you learn?

How to teach a morphology lesson using explicit instruction.

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Phonics professional learning: Morphology instruction and SSP

The Literacy Hub provides free, online professional learning to support schools through each step of building a systematic synthetic phonics (SSP) approach for reading and spelling. This topic addresses morphology instruction.

Morphology lesson slides: un- prefix

This sample slideshow presents a ready-to-use morphology lesson to teach adding the un- prefix, with teacher notes indicating how to teach each part of the lesson.

Morphology lesson student worksheet: un- prefix

This worksheet for independent student practice accompanies the morphology lesson slides for adding the -s suffix to create plural nouns.

Morphology review slides

This example morphology review slide pack is ready for classroom use. It can be edited to match any morphology lesson and aligns with the Literacy Hub phonics progression.