Morphology

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Morphology

• the structure of words

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What does it include?

• Word families
• Relationships between words
• Syllable types

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Word Families

• The endings are spelled the same
• -at (cat, fat, rat, hat, mat, pat)
• -ock (rock, dock, mock, sock)
• -ed (bed, red)
• -ick (lick, wick, sick, tick)
• -all (ball, fall, wall, hall, mall)

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Relationships between words

• Recognizing that words with the same root word
  are all related
• Run-ran, running, runs
• Sit-sat, sitting, sits
• Agree-agreed, agrees, disagree, disagreement
• Self-selfish, selfishness, selfless

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Syllable Types

• Consonant closes in a vowel short vowel sound
• cat, blend, chin, thick, shop, strong
• Vowel, consonant, silent e long vowel sound
• kite, bike, lake, tore, mule
• Vowel is open in the syllable long vowel sound
• me, go, hi, why, so

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More Syllable Types

• Consonant followed by le the consonant makes
  its sound and the le says /l/
• ta ble, lit tle, tic kle
• R controls the sound of the vowel (ar, er, ir,
  or, ur)
• hurt, fort, start, first, her

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More Syllable Types

• Syllable containing vowel dipthongs and digraphs
  or vowel teams (oo, oa, ee, ei, igh, eigh, ie,
  etc.)
• boat, eight, sigh, meet, school, tie