Word Identification Acquire Knowledge of Greek and Latin Morphemes

Pretest Today, we are going to find out three things. We will need to know if you can identify words parts, know the meaning of word parts, and can predict the meaning of words. For these reasons, I am giving you a quiz.

Thank-you, I will share the results tomorrow.

Purpose When you are reading, you can understand more about what you are reading if you know or can figure out the meaning of words. Today, you will learn about a new strategy for figuring out what words mean. You will start by learning about prefixes. You will learn how to identify them and how to pronounce them. Later, you will be learning their meaning.

Expectations During today’s lesson, I expect you to pay attention, take notes, and participate in the discussion. When I ask you to do some practice activities, I expect you to concentrate (stay focused) andwork carefully so that you can reach mastery and move on to another lesson.

Morphemes Word parts that have meaning are called ‘morphemes’. A morpheme is a word or the smaller part of a word that expresses meaning.

Example For example, the morpheme ‘un-’ means ‘not’. The morpheme ‘book’ means something you can read that has many pages. Remember, a whole word can be a morpheme or just a part of a word.

Morphemes vs. Syllables If you have never heard of morphemes, you may confuse them with syllables. However, syllables are different from morphemes in that syllables are parts of words that center on a vowel sound, and they do not have meaning. Morphemes can include one syllable or more than one syllable, but they always have a very special meaning. Let’s look at an example.

Example Unladylike How many syllables?

Unladylike Unladylike has 4 syllables. Lady has two syllables, but la does not mean anything nor does dy. There are 3 morphemes in this word. Un – lady – like Un has a special meaning. Lady has a special meaning. Like has a special meaning.

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Three Types of Morphemes Over the next three days, you will be learning about three kinds of morphemes: prefixes, roots, and suffixes.

Prefixes are word parts with meaning. Roots are word parts with meaning. Suffixes are word parts with meaning. Prefixes are placed at the beginning of a word. Roots can be at the beginning, middle, or end of a word. Suffixes come at the end of a word. Roots can be the whole word. Prefixes can change the meaning of a root. Suffixes can change the meaning of a root.

How are prefixes, roots, and suffixes similar and different? Prefixes, roots, and suffixes are similar…. Prefixes and suffixes are similar…. Roots are different…. Suffixes are unique…. Prefixes only belong at …. How would I make a Topic Sentence about this information? What type and formula?

Why know the meaning of word parts? If you know the meaning of word parts, you can usually figure out what a word means. Unfortunately, all words don’t have these parts, so we just have to learn the meaning of certain words because we will not be able to figure them out. I will teach you a strategy to figure out meaning of unknown words using morphemes.

Word Mapping Strategy The strategy you will learn is the Word Mapping Strategy. This strategy involves the use the meaning of prefixes, roots, and suffixes to decide what a word means. We will learn about the steps of the strategy after you have learned about prefixes, roots, and suffixes over the next few days.

What are prefixes?

Prefix Definition List Several prefixes are used over and over in the English language. If you can pronounce these common prefixes, you will be better able to pronounce the words you encounter in your reading, and you will be able to figure out their meanings.Let’s look at a list of some common prefixes.

Prefixes a- ab- abs- ad- ambi- an- ante- anti- auto- bi- circum- co- col- com- con- contra- de- dem- di- dia- dis- dys- e- em- en- epi- eu-

Prefixes 2 ex- extra- extro- for- fore- hetero- homo- hydro- hyper- hypo- il- im- in- inter- intra- intro- ir- mal- male- micro- mis- mono- multi- non- neuro- ob- over- pan- para- per-

Prefixes 3 peri- phot- photo- post- pre- pro- pseudo- re- retro- semi- socio- sub- sur- super- syl- sym- syn- tele- trans- ultra- un- up-

Tomorrow Tomorrow we will look at the meaning of these prefixes and learn how to separate them.