How do these activities for the classroom connect to our discussion on morphemes in class? In what ways does seeing these activities clarify or extend your understanding of how morphemes are taught in schools? What questions do you still have?
I'm a very visual learner and examples help me to understand what I'm learning. Looking at these activities that could be used in the classroom help me to understand what we went over in class. I understood everything in class, but seeing it in these simple forms, cleared up any questions I had after class last week. Going through and looking at each activity was actually a nice little review for me. :)
These activities tie in directly with our class last Thursday night. When we talked about morphemes being the smallest unit with meaning, students can see that the base words are one morphemes and the prefixes and suffixes are also morphemes. I also liked the activity that has the base words then the student takes the affixes to create words, then decide if they are real and writing them down. That exercise is great for kids to get the idea of how words are made and what they mean.
These activites get the students involved with hands on activities. These activities help me further my understanding with morphemes by showing how the base words are morphemes. Being able to see these examples helps me learn more of what me went over in class and how morphemes become compound words.
The morphemes activities remind me a lot of the program I used called Orton-Gillingham. The program much like these morpheme activities provides visuals, hands-on, and breaks the word down to its smallest form.
I'm a very visual learner and examples help me to understand what I'm learning. Looking at these activities that could be used in the classroom help me to understand what we went over in class. I understood everything in class, but seeing it in these simple forms, cleared up any questions I had after class last week. Going through and looking at each activity was actually a nice little review for me. :)
ReplyDeleteThese activities tie in directly with our class last Thursday night. When we talked about morphemes being the smallest unit with meaning, students can see that the base words are one morphemes and the prefixes and suffixes are also morphemes. I also liked the activity that has the base words then the student takes the affixes to create words, then decide if they are real and writing them down. That exercise is great for kids to get the idea of how words are made and what they mean.
ReplyDeleteThese activites get the students involved with hands on activities. These activities help me further my understanding with morphemes by showing how the base words are morphemes. Being able to see these examples helps me learn more of what me went over in class and how morphemes become compound words.
ReplyDeleteThe morphemes activities remind me a lot of the program I used called Orton-Gillingham. The program much like these morpheme activities provides visuals, hands-on, and breaks the word down to its smallest form.
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