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Morphology: Teaching Activities
Remember . . . even if you are a Science, Social Studies, or Math teacher, you are also a language teacher if you have ELLs in your classroom. Everyone reads, writes, listens, and speaks as they acquire that new, exciting material you are offering up, right? Math teachers, look at the words in word problems, for example. Can you help your ELLs unpack those words morphologically? History teachers, maybe your class is studying a decisive battle in the Civil War. Consider the word retreat and direct your students to the prefix re-. Science teachers, when your students are writing up a lab report, gently remind them to use the morpheme -ed when writing about how they tested something and analyzed the results.
Remember . . . even if you are a Science, Social Studies, or Math teacher, you are also a language teacher if you have ELLs in your classroom. Everyone reads, writes, listens, and speaks as they acquire that new, exciting material you are offering up, right? Math teachers, look at the words in word problems, for example. Can you help your ELLs unpack those words morphologically? History teachers, maybe your class is studying a decisive battle in the Civil War. Consider the word retreat and direct your students to the prefix re-. Science teachers, when your students are writing up a lab report, gently remind them to use the morpheme -ed when writing about how they tested something and analyzed the results.