Teachers love my free morphology walls! These interactive (drag and drop) Google slides feature 77 high frequency/utility Greek and Latin prefixes, bases, and suffixes from my Greek and Latin Morphology and Comprehensive Vocabulary programs. Following is the link to 18 slides–fully editable if you wish to add your own. Of course you can download these to PowerPoint®. Want to see it in action? Check out this half-minute video.
Now, if you want the definitions and practice with these morphemes before reviewing and extending learning with these walls, get an entire year-long program of 56 lessons in Greek and Latin Morphology in either of the aforementioned programs.
The 77 morphemes have been cleverly combined into 14 key anchor words to help students place these word parts into their long term memories. For example, the anchor word inter-medi-ary helps students remember their morphemic definitions (between-middle-relating to) so much better than memorizing the morphemes in isolation.
No prep. Simply teach and practice the 3 morphemes a week, and share the Greek and Latin Morphology Wall slides (or print them if you like) as weekly review/extension. You’ll be amazed at the morphological connections that your students make as they drag and drop not only the 3 new morphemes learned during the week, but also how they drag and drop to previously learned prefixes, bases, and suffixes to create new words. Great distributed practice! Enjoy the lessons, and consider purchasing the instructional programs that will help you teach and practice the 3 morphemes per week, quickly and concisely. You do have other things to teach!
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For full-year vocabulary programs which include multiple meaning words (L.4.a.), Greek and Latin morphology with Morphology Walls (L.4.a.), figures of speech (L.5.a.), words with special relationships (L.5.b.), words with connotative meanings (L.5.c.), and academic language words (L.6.0), check out the assessment-basedgrades 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 Comprehensive Vocabulary.
To teach 77 high frequency morphemes with quick interactive practice, check out Greek and Latin Morphology. Each scripted lesson focuses on one prefix, base, or suffix with variant spellings. The lessons are grouped in sets of three morphemes as Anchor Words to help students map the meanings, spelling) and pronunciation into their long-term memories. Following each set of three lessons, students review the word parts and Anchor Words by practicing on interactive Greek and Latin Morphology Walls.
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