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Morphological Awareness
Vocabulary is the term for the words of a language and morphology is the term for the study of the parts of words. Students’ vocabularies expand through the study of word parts, specifically root or base words (connect), affixes (reconnect, connection, inflectional morphemes (e.g., connects, connecting, connected).
The study of word parts increases awareness of the links between words, including the origins of words in other languages. Cognate means to have “the same ancestry.” Many English words are close cognates to German words (e.g., apple/Apfel). Other English words are easily traced to French words (e.g., communicate/communiquer). French and Spanish both originated from Latin which means that cognates also exist between English and Spanish words (e.g., communicate/comunicar).
TextProject provides the following valuable resources on morphology, including English-Spanish cognates.
Featured Resources
E4: Exceptional Expressions for Everyday Events
E4 is a series of 32 flexible vocabulary development lessons each focusing on an everyday concept and brainstorming other words that describe the concept.
WordZones™ for 4,000 Simple Word Families
We have renamed a version of our popular WordZones™ for 5,586 words list to WordZones™ for 4,000 Simple Word Families. The list has not changed. Only the name has been changed to highlight the number of word families the 5,586 most frequent words have been sorted into.
Other Resources
Word Findings #1
Frankly Freddy Post
14 March 2007
As students move through the grades, morphological awareness increasingly predicts students’ reading.
High-Leverage Action #2
Frankly Freddy Post
7 November 2009
In linguistics, cognates are words that have a common origin.
A County Immersed in Vocabulary
Presentation
22 April 2008
Archived webinar presentation available at SchoolsMovingUp.
Webinar presented on April 22, 2008. Hosted by SchoolsMovingUp.
A School Immersed in Vocabulary
Presentation
18 March 2008
Archived webinar presentation available at SchoolsMovingUp.
Webinar presented on March 18, 2008. Hosted by SchoolsMovingUp.
Word Lists: Choices and Uses
Presentation
24 May 2007
Archived webinar presentation available at SchoolsMovingUp.
Webinar presented on May 24, 2007. Hosted by SchoolsMovingUp.
An analysis of English-Spanish cognates as a source of general academic language
Research Article
6 April 2011
Lubliner, S., & Hiebert, E.H. (2011). An analysis of English-Spanish cognates as a source of general academic language. Bilingual Research Journal. 34(1), 76-93.
Morphological Knowledge and Learning to Read in English
Research Article
23 April 2009
Hiebert, E.H., & Bravo, M., (2010). Morphological knowledge and learning to read in English. In D. Wyse, R. Andrews, & J. Hoffman (Eds.), International Handbook of English, Language and Literacy Teaching (pp. 87-97). Oxford, UK: Routledge.