Morph Mastery: A Morphological Intervention for Reading, Spelling and Vocabulary

Morph Mastery: A Morphological Intervention for Reading, Spelling and Vocabulary
Author: Louise Selby
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2021-07-29
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000400549

Morph Mastery is an accessible, practical guide designed to support learners with specific learning difficulties (SpLD) who are struggling with spelling, reading and vocabulary. It is an effective, research-based and fun solution for when phonics-based teaching has run its course. Understanding the morphological regularities in English helps to support both spelling and reading comprehension, yet there are few practical interventions that take a morphological approach. Morph Mastery combines this exciting new approach with tried-and-tested teaching methods that work. The activities in this book follow three engaging ninja-like characters, Prefa, Root and Sufa, who represent the three core components of morphology (prefixes, root words and suffixes) and use their sceptres to craft words. Key features include: • Exciting and engaging activities and games, designed to be used by individuals or small groups • Detailed, curriculum-linked assessments, enabling specific target setting • Photocopiable and downloadable activity sheets and resources Written in a user-friendly tone, for teaching assistants, teachers and other professionals with little or no specialist knowledge, this book is a must for any school with struggling readers and writers aged 9–13.


200 Tricky Spellings in Cartoons

200 Tricky Spellings in Cartoons
Author: Lidia Stanton
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2021-01-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1787755436

The new revised edition of Lidia Stanton's bestselling book of mnemonics demystifying over 200 of the most difficult spellings. The book is structured around confusing pairs of words, such as homophones or words that 'go together', tricky everyday words and tricky academic words, with memorable illustrations on every page to help you connect the word's meaning and graphical features with how it's spelt. This is not a traditional spelling book, but a resource that will really get you thinking, and laughing out loud. This guide encourages active learning and recollection, breaking away from repetitive methods such as 'look, cover, write, check', enabling you to effortlessly recall and identify once-confusing spelling patterns.


Improving Literacy by Teaching Morphemes

Improving Literacy by Teaching Morphemes
Author: Terezinha Nunes
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2006-08-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1134176937

Literacy, and how to improve it, remains a high profile issue in education around the world Introduces a ground-breaking, tried-and-tested way to increase vocabulary growth in children Previously little guidance available on the impact of this method on literacy Well-known and highly respected authors, Nunes and Bryant, provide a new impetus for research with children in this field


Remember 10 With Explorer Ben

Remember 10 With Explorer Ben
Author: Catherine Veitch
Publisher: QEB Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-10-03
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781682972069

Join intrepid, but forgetful, Explorer Ben who sets off on a big adventure through jungle, caves and deserts on different methods of transport...but keeps he forgetting things along the way. Can you help Ben try to remember the items? Learn memorisation tricks along the way and see what you can help Ben remember! A fun memory game adventure full of new memory tips to learn!


Dyslexia and Spelling

Dyslexia and Spelling
Author: Kelli Sandman-Hurley
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2019-06-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1784507601

Written by an authority in the dyslexia field, this is the first accessible guide to the close interplay of spelling and dyslexia. Kelli Sandman-Hurley talks the teacher or parent through why kids with dyslexia find spelling so hard, and what we can learn from the spelling mistakes in their writing samples. Introducing key terminology around morphemes (smallest unit of meaning in words) and phonemes (smallest contrastive units in language) in an accessible and clear way, Sandman-Hurley goes on to explain how we can identify, and learn from, kids' spelling miscues, and use them to further inform our teaching and instruction. Shedding much-needed light on an under-explored tool for classroom or home learning, Dyslexia and Spelling is essential reading for teachers and parents alike.


Reading Acquisition

Reading Acquisition
Author: Philip B. Gough
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2017-11-27
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1351236881

Originally published in 1992. This book brings together the work of a number of distinguished international researchers engaged in basic research on beginning reading. Individual chapters address various processes and problems in learning to read - including how acquisition gets underway, the contribution of story listening experiences, what is involved in learning to read words, and how readers represent information about written words in memory. In addition, the chapter contributors consider how phonological, onset-rime, and syntactic awareness contribute to reading acquisition, how learning to spell is involved, how reading ability can be explained as a combination of decoding skill plus listening comprehension skill, and what causes reading difficulties and how to study these causes.


Word Morphology and Written Language Acquisition: Insights from Typical and Atypical Development in Different Orthographies

Word Morphology and Written Language Acquisition: Insights from Typical and Atypical Development in Different Orthographies
Author: Lynne G. Duncan
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2019-06-05
Genre:
ISBN: 2889458326

This Research Topic explores the processing of morphemes, the smallest units of language that bear meaning and that combine to form more complex words. The articles gathered under this Research Topic investigate typical and atypical morphological processing by children and adolescents in ten different languages. These articles provide cross-linguistic and cross-script evidence of the early sensitivity of children to the morphemic structure of words, irrespective of whether they are struggling readers or typically developing. All in all, the collection allows for a better understanding of how morphological processing skills develop, providing valuable clues as to how this competence can be used as a tool to improve literacy acquisition in struggling readers.


Expanding the Lexicon

Expanding the Lexicon
Author: Sabine Arndt-Lappe
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2018-01-22
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110498162

The creation of new lexical units and patterns has been studied in different research frameworks, focusing on either system-internal or system-external aspects, from which no comprehensive view has emerged. The volume aims to fill this gap by studying dynamic processes in the lexicon – understood in a wide sense as not being necessarily limited to the word level – by bringing together approaches directed to morphological productivity as well as approaches analyzing general types of lexical innovation and the role of discourse-related factors. The papers deal with ongoing changes as well as with historical processes of change in different languages and reflect on patterns and specific subtypes of lexical innovation as well as on their external conditions and the speakers’ motivations for innovating. Moreover, the diffusion and conventionalization of innovations will be addressed. In this way, the volume contributes to understanding the complex interplay of structural, cognitive and functional factors in the lexicon as a highly dynamic domain.


Introduction to Classical Nahuatl

Introduction to Classical Nahuatl
Author: James Richard Andrews
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages: 704
Release: 2003
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780806134529

Nahuatl is the language used by the ancient Aztecs and the Nahua Indians of Central Mexico. This text introduces the language using an anthropological approach, teaching learners to understand Nahuatl according to its own distinctive grammar and to reject translationalist descriptions based on English or Spanish notions of grammar. In particular, the author emphasizes the nonexistence of words in Nahuatl (except for the few so-called particles) and stresses the nuclear clause as the basis for Nahuatl linguistic organization.