Morph Mastery: A Morphological Intervention for Reading, Spelling and Vocabulary

Foreword  Acknowledgements  Author’s Note  How to Use this Book  Case Studies: Morph Mastery The Pilot  Chapter 1: Morphology and the Mastery of Language: An Introduction  Chapter 2: Spelling: Friend or Foe?  Chapter 3: Key Skills in Becoming a Morph Master  Chapter 4: Golden Rules for Becoming a Morph Master Teacher  Chapter 5: Laying the Foundations: What you Need to Know  Chapter 6: Assess – Plan – Do – Review: An Overview of Morph Mastery the Intervention  Chapter 7: Measuring, Planning and Monitoring through Assessment  Chapter 8: Using the Assessments to Plan  Chapter 9: The Lessons in Detail  Chapter 10: Games and Resources  Chapter 11: Using Morph Mastery in Class  Chapter 12: What next?  Appendices  Appendix 1: Morphological Awareness Assessment  Appendix 2: Knowledge of Morphemes Assessment Adult Record Sheet  Appendix 3: Knowledge of Morphemes Assessment Pupil Word Lists  Appendix 4: Assessment Summary Sheet  Appendix 5: Morph Mastery 6 week Plan  Appendix 6: Suggested Teaching Sequence of Affixes with Roots  Appendix 7: Word Lists for Planning  Appendix 8: Lesson Plan Masters with Guidance  Appendix 9: Lesson Plan Masters  Appendix 10: Meet the Masters  Appendix 11: Morph Mastercard  Appendix 12: Word Mastery Questions  Appendix 13: Examples of Phonologically Opaque Morphemes  Appendix 14: Morpheme Cards  Appendix 15: Greek and Latin Meanings and Derivations Chart  Appendix 16: Impact Data from the Pilot  Appendix 17: Morpheme Cards with Greek and Latin  Appendix 18: Useful Resources  Appendix 19: Reference and Bibliography  Appendix 20: Glossary

Biography

Louise Selby is a primary trained teacher with 20 years of experience in teaching and supporting learners with Special Educational Needs in mainstream schools. After a number of years of class-based teaching, support teaching and SENCO experience in primary schools, Louise spent 11 years working for Hertfordshire Local Authority as a specialist advisory teacher for specific learning difficulties across the age ranges. She also works freelance in consulting, training and assessing for specific learning difficulties and dyslexia. For more information about Louise’s work, visit her website on www.louiseselbydyslexia.com.

Morph Mastery uses recent research on the development of morphological knowledge to support structured and cumulative learning. The games are fun and adaptable, the learners are encouraged to develop independence through their ‘word espionage’ and the materials are engaging for all ages.

Professor Julia Carroll, Coventry University

 

What a fantastic resource! The characters that run through the book really facilitate the use of morphology to unlock spelling and reading for learners with SpLD. This book will appeal to primary school aged learners but also to secondary school learners, a group of learners who often get forgotten. The research based assess/plan/do/review format for the intervention will support pupils to achieve their specific targets, build their lexicon, extend their grammatical knowledge, improve their reading skills through recognition of common morphemes, and progress their spelling skills through encoding root words, prefixes, and suffixes. The addition of game-based resources should allow for the reinforcement, repetition and overlearning that so many SpLD learners need to help cement new learning.

Claire Harvey, Head of Education, Helen Arkell Dyslexia Charity