If your learners are ready for a wintery way to work on morphemes, you’ll enjoy this Winter Tree Morpheme Mat.
Be sure to check out my NO PREP Morpheme Pages Pack.
*Find the FREE download by scrolling down on this post and clicking on the TEAL download button.
What are Morphemes?
Morphemes are the smallest unit of MEANING in words. It can be one letter, like the s in cats {meaning more than one} or a chunk of letters, like the un in unhappy {meaning not}.
As learners get deeper into word study, a study of Greek roots and Latin stems is important. Not only does this help our learners READ longer words by recognizing the chunks in words, but understanding the meaning of these common stems and roots build our learners’ vocabulary, thus supporting comprehension.
A few of the most common Greek roots are: auto, bio, graph, hydr, geo, meter, logy/ology, phon/phone, photo, scope, sphere, tele, and therm.
A few of the most common Latin stems are: audi, dict, ject, port, rupt, scrib/script, spect, struct, tract, and vis.
For more about morphemes, visit my post, Morphology in Structured Literacy.
Winter Tree Morpheme Mat
Today, I’m sharing a winter tree morpheme mat. At the bottom of the page, learners can write a Greek root or a Latin stem.* Then learners write one word containing the root {or stem} on one of the snowflakes.
Take for example the stem port. Learners can work individually or with a small group to come up with other words with the stem such as import, portable, deport, or support.
You might also like our DIGITAL AND PRINTABLE Latin Stem Cards or Greek Root Cards.
*If you teach learners who aren’t quite ready for stems and roots, you can use these trees for base words or affixes. For example, with the prefix un in the box at the base of the tree, learners could write words on the snowflake that contain the prefix un like unhappy, untie, or unable.
Download the free morpheme mat below:
Enjoy teaching morphemes!
~Becky
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