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Structural Analysis, Derivational Morphology, Inflectional Morphology,…
Structural Analysis
Definition: A strategy that involves breaking down unfamiliar words into their meaningful parts. (prefixes, root words, suffixes) to determine their meanings.
Example: Breaking down unbelievable into un+believe+able helps student infer that it means "not able to be believed"
Non-example: Guessing a word's meaning based on context clues alone, without analyzing the word itself.
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Provide students with a laminated “word dissection mat” and colored dry-erase markers. Have them circle and label the parts of multi-syllabic words and then draw arrows to a meaning box to write a definition based on parts.
Derivational Morphology
Definition: the process of forming a new word by adding a prefix or suffix that changes the word's meaning or grammatical category.
Non-example: Changing cat to cats, it doesn't change the part of speech.
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Have students use a sorting mat to match base words with possible derivational affixes and label the new part of speech.
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Inflectional Morphology
Definition: the modification of a word to express different grammatical feature (tense, number, or possession).
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Example: Walk becomes walked (past tense), cat becomes cats (plural).
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Classroom Cue: "Inflectional just twists the word a little, it's still the same type of word!
Bound Morpheme
Definition: A morpheme that cannot stand alone and must attach to a free morpheme to have a meaning.
Non-example: Dog, jump, or bright. These are free morphemes because they can stand alone.
Example: s (past tense), un (negation)
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Implicit
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Example: the teacher gave implicit warning by raising her eyebrow, without saying a word.
Non-example: Saying "you are late: out loud is explicit, no implicit.
Classroom Cue: "It's like reading between the lines What's not said, but still understood."
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