The Morpheme Matrix has been designed for the learner to explore Greek and Latin roots in a constructive capacity. Explore the construction of words using prefixes, bound / free base words, inflectional suffixes and derivational suffixes.

What's included:

• Editable Posters: co-construct a Morpheme Poster with your class
• Latin roots: form, port, rupt, tract, scrib, script, spect, struct, flect, flex, dict, fer, mit, miss, duce, duct, vers, vert, fact, fect, fict, tent, tent, tens, ceit, ceive, cept, tain, ten, tin, pos and pound.
• Greek roots: gram, graph, logy, ology, meter, metr, phone, phon, sphere, cray, crat and scope.
  

V9 Australian Curriculum Aligned - Year 5

• build and spell new words from knowledge of known words, base words, prefixes and suffixes, word origins, letter patterns and spelling generalisations (AC9E5LY09)

V9 Australian Curriculum Aligned - Year 6

• use knowledge of known words, word origins, including some Latin and Greek roots, base words, prefixes, suffixes, letter patterns and spelling generalisations to spell new words including technical words (AC9E6LY09)

NSW Stage 2 Syllabus Aligned: Focus Area: Vocabulary (EN2-VOCAB-01)

• Content Group: Defining and analysing words - 

  • Apply morphemic knowledge to change word meanings by adding different prefixes and suffixes to a base word or root

Take a look at the Morpheme Matrix Bundle to complement this learning task.

Format: PDF and PowerPoint