Morphology instructional model slide outlines

1. Morphology instructional model 

Extract from a Literacy Hub professional learning webinar. 

2. Morphology instructional model 

[Image: Screen shot shows the Literacy Hub’s instructional model for morphology. The model has two stages. The first stage is Review, which progresses from Morpheme level – Read, spell and say meaning; to Word level – Read, spell and say meaning; to Sentence level – Read, spell and say meaning. A graphic indicates this is a ‘You do’ stage, where ‘Teacher provides corrective feedback’.  

The second stage is Explicit teaching. A banner at the first part of this stage says: Learning intention and success criteria. This is followed by three levels: Morpheme level – Read, spell and say meaning; Word level – Read and spell words with target morpheme, Apply meaning; and Sentence level – Read and spell sentences with target morpheme and apply meaning. A graphic indicates this stage is ‘I do’ and ‘You do’ in the instructional model. The final part of the second stage is: Check for understanding. This stage shows graphics for ‘You do’ Independent practice, and Teacher focus group.] 

3. Reporter 

[Image: the word ‘reporter’ is shown as an example word to break down into its morphemes. Identified are the prefix re, which means ‘back or again’. Then circled is the Latin root ‘port’, which means ‘to carry’, followed by the suffix -er, which means ‘a person who, or thing that, does something’.] 

4. Transfusion 

[Image: the word ‘transfusion’ is shown as an example word to break down into its morphemes. Identified are the prefix trans, which means ‘across or through’. Then circled is the Latin root ‘fus’, from ‘fuse’ which means ‘to pour’, followed by the suffix -ion, which means ‘state of, or result of an action’.] 

5. Impact of morphology instruction on word reading and spelling 

Morphemes: un-, re-, -able. 

Base/root word: do 

Word collection: undo, doable, redo, undoable, redoable. 

[Image: words in word collection have the base word letters in red, to show their relationship with the base/root word.] 

6. Morphological knowledge eliminates spelling errors 

Morphological knowledge eliminates spelling errors such as…: 

• jumpt 
• brix 
• stashun 

7. Morphemes 

[Image: slide shows suffixes (in purple) and prefixes (in green) from the Literacy Hub phonics progression in the order in which they are introduced. The suffixes shown are: -s, -es, -ing, -ed, -er, -est, -ful, -ly and -ment. The prefixes shown are: un-, re-, pre- and mis-. The affixes -s, -ing, -ed and un- have a star, indicating that they will be modelled by the presenters in other videos in this series.]