Teaching students to find and spell morphemes, or meaningful parts, or long words can help students to read those words.
The following resource is intended for instructors and tutors working with elementary students in Grades 3-5 who are experiencing difficulties reading long words.
In this lesson, the instructor will introduce the meanings of the suffixes -ate and -er and demonstrate how to use the peel-off strategy to break orally stated words into parts. Next, students will practice using the peel-off strategy to read multimorphemic words with the suffixes -ate and -er. Then, students will build words with the target suffixes. Finally, students will spell multimorphemic words with the –ate and -er suffixes. After the lesson activities are completed, the instructor will assess students’ ability to read and spell multimorphemic words in a list before reading a connected text that contains the same words. After the lesson activities are completed, the instructor will assess students’ ability to read and spell multimorphemic words in a list before reading a connected text that contains the same words.