1. Inquiry into Morphology

2. Question to guide inquiry
Today we will do an inquiry and ask, “How often does it really pay off to push ourselves to look inside words when they are tricky?”

3. More than 60 percent of academic words have word parts (also called morphemes or roots) that always s carry the same meaning. Knowing that words can be broken down into meaning units is a powerful strategy for vocabulary development.

4. Quick example
I want to break down
INDESTRUCTIBLE

5. Quick example
I want to break down
IN / DESTRUCT / IBLE

6. DESTRUCT is like destroy???
Quick example
I want to break down
IN / DESTRUCT / IBLE
DESTRUCT is like destroy???

7. DESTRUCT is like destroy??? IN usually means not
Quick example
I want to break down
IN / DESTRUCT / IBLE
DESTRUCT is like destroy???
IN usually means not

8. Quick example IN / DESTRUCT / IBLE DESTRUCT is like destroy???
I want to break down
IN / DESTRUCT / IBLE
DESTRUCT is like destroy???
IN usually means not
IBLE is sort of like able

9. So today, lets push ourselves
Let’s look into the fifth grade passages.