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Word Maker Morphemes Spinners: Morphology-Based Decoding Practice with Prefixes and Suffixes – Science of Reading #1 (Puzzles, Games and Activities: Learning to Read Big Words) - Softcover
Book 6 of 6: Puzzles, Games and Activities: Learning to Read Big Words
Synopsis
Welcome to Word Maker Morphemes Spinners #1.
A companion to the best-selling Word Ladders With Morphemes workbooks, this book is designed to provide hands-on, visual, and engaging morphology-based practice.
With these word maker spinner activities, your child will experience first-hand how big words are made. They’ll discover how multisyllabic words are built from morphemes (prefixes, suffixes and base words.) Regular practice with prefixes and suffixes makes reading and spelling quicker and easier.
Here’s why:
Word making activities can help your student begin to recognize common word parts automatically and apply them as they sound out or spell new words.
This is particularly useful when reading or spelling big, gigantic words – words with multiple syllables.
When a reader recognizes a word part automatically, they don’t have to sound out that part – saving them time and brain energy (called cognitive load.)
Instead of guessing or sounding out one letter at a time, children learn to recognize meaningful word parts (prefixes, suffixes & roots or base words) that show up again and again in English words.
Some benefits of recognizing word parts automatically:
•Increased confidence when encountering unfamiliar words
•Less frustration and more willingness to try longer words
•Greater ease breaking long words into meaningful parts
Over time, this approach builds a strong internal “word bank.” As children recognize more morphemes automatically, they can read and spell longer words more efficiently.
Word Maker Morphemes Spinners are the perfect supplement to systematic and explicit multisyllabic decoding and spelling instruction at the morphology level. Science of Reading inspired.
Great for home study practice, small group intervention, early finishers, activity centers, summer activities – and anyone who enjoys working with words.
Suitable for mid-third grade reading level and up.
Self-checking answers are included on each page.
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