Using accelerated, incremental and interactive Direct Instruction methods, participants will learn prefixes, suffixes and word base meanings and spellings. These will be utilized in various combinations to create new words. This vocabulary building will allow students to retain the meanings of words by their various parts and their correct spellings by segmenting words into parts which can be mixed an matched to create new words with new meanings.

The goal of Learning Vocabulary Through Morphographs is to teach students a set of principles that deals with the structure of words. Once students have mastered these principles, they can apply them to english words and generate both correct meanings and spellings. 

In every class, teaching will be live, fast-paced and interactive between students and teacher. 

Students will interact with the instructor in every lesson by discussion, questioning and response. 

At periodic intervals, each class will have the opportunity to interact with one another by way of bingo games and crossword puzzles that review covered words, word parts and definitions. 

Students should have the ability to read at a minimal second grade level to excel in the Learning Vocabulary Through Morphographs class.

Weekly Vocabulary/Definitions:
Week 1:
Prefix taught - 
re- = again

Suffix taught - 
-ing = when you do something

Base Words: 
act
born
fresh
pack
rent
rest
ring
quiet
string
water
wonder

Week 2:
Weekly Vocabulary/Definitions:
Prefix taught - 
un - = not

Prefix reviewed -
re- = again

Suffix taught -
-est = the most 

Suffix reviewed -
-ing = when you do something

New Base Words: 
port
happy
spell
light
sort
match
thick
brush

Week 3:
Weekly Vocabulary/Definitions:
Prefix taught - 
mis - = wrong

Prefixes reviewed -
re- = again
un- = not

Suffix taught -
- less = without

Suffix reviewed -
-ing = when you do something
- est = the most

New Base Words: 
author
motor
spend

Week 4:
Weekly Vocabulary/Definitions:
Prefixes reviewed -
re- = again
un- = not
mis- = wrong

Suffix reviewed -
-ing = when you do something
- est = the most
- less = without

New Base Words: 
match
grand

Week 5:
Weekly Vocabulary/Definitions:
Prefixes reviewed -
re- = again
un- = not
mis- = wrong

Suffixes taught  -
-ness = that which is
-able + able to be

Suffix reviewed -
-ing = when you do something
- est = the most
- less = without

New Base Word:
press

Week 6:
Weekly Vocabulary/Definitions:
Prefixes reviewed -
mis- = wrong
re- = again
un- = not

Suffix taught -
- ed = in the past

Suffixes reviewed -
-ness = that which is
-able = able to be
-ing = when you do something
- est = the most
- less = without

New Base Words:
dine
face
wide
use
help
like
care
note
bare
friend