This reflection describes the nature of knowledge and how it may be developed through the examination of generative vocabulary knowledge and the role of the spelling system in developing this knowledge. In addition, it explores morphological development and the significant insights and understandings that students should attain.

This website provides four methods of intervention instruction for sight words. These quick and simple tutoring interventions include, sight words flashcards: single-response, sight words flashcards: direct instruction, sight words flash cards: folding-in, and sight words word list preview and repeated reading.

This is a guide that focuses on the different content areas of morphology and improving literacy content for younger students.

Throughout this article, the author discusses the importance of teaching students about word parts (i.e., roots, prefixes, suffixes) because it is a useful tool for determining the meaning of unfamiliar words and growing academic vocabularies.

In this PowerPoint, there is a review of the theoretical models associated with language comprehension, an explanation of the role of vocabulary in reading instruction, and there is an exploration of the role of writing instruction to build comprehension skills. The authors will also analyze the impact of background knowledge on reading comprehension and they will provide an understanding of how to use complex texts at grade level to build background knowledge and vocabulary.

In this research article, the author discusses how academic language instruction hinges on teaching specific language to understand complex texts but also requires building on students’ existing language. There is information on the quantitative methods used to examine the relation between academic language proficiency and reading comprehension, and qualitative methods to understand students’ attitudes and motivations toward academic language as situated school practices.

Literacy expert, Timothy Shanahan, shares best practices for teaching reading and writing. Dr. Shanahan is an internationally recognized professor of urban education and reading researcher who has extensive experience with children in inner-city schools and children with special needs.

Morphology is a critical element of successful vocabulary development and accurate decoding. Awareness of morphology has been shown to be a strong indicator of and positive influence upon reading comprehension. Subsequently, weakness in decoding and vocabulary skills is noted as a potent inhibitor to fully comprehending text.

Vocabulary is the term for the words of a language and morphology is the term for the study of the parts of words. This website, TextProject, has numerous resources for supporting vocabulary learning and the development of morphological awareness.

Morphological is a skill that contributes to student performance on reading and spelling tasks, and it often predicts how well students will perform on those tasks. This article reviews the meaning of morphological awareness, what teachers and parents can do to educate children on it, as well as how it can be structured into literacy instruction.

This video provides a suggested framework for implementing morphological awareness instruction in the classroom, as well as activity examples and key principles for successful implementation.

When morphology is combined with phonograms and spelling rules, virtually every word can be explained logically. This is because English spelling seeks to balance the sounds of the language with the fact that those sounds sometimes shift in pronunciation when adding a suffix or a prefix. Learn more about how to leverage morphology to help students spell better and master vocabulary more efficiently.

The Ohio Department of Education hosted a literacy conference in 2019 that reviewed how to use morphology bases and affixes to develop vocabulary skills.

This is an introduction to morphology in linguistics describing morphemes, bound morphemes, free morphemes, content words, function words, bound roots, affixes, and the like.

The best way to become a better writer is to write a lot. Listen to Joan Sedita talk about "Quick Writes"; short informational writing tasks completed in under ten minutes. The goal is to help students process, organize and remember information and ideas. This is an excerpt from Keys to Content Writing Professional Development for teachers in grades 4-12 and one of the instructional practices designed to teach content writing.