Help me give my students baseball caps for a fun, dynamic way to practice morphology and word creation.
FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Dewey's classroom raised $222
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My Project
In many states but specifically in Utah, all K-3 teachers are teaching phonological awareness, phonics, and morphemes. This 95 Phonics Core Program is teaching students the rules of pronunciation and decoding and asking them to manipulate English morphemes. Teachers love this program. Most importantly, the knowledge that students gain in decoding skills results in filling gaps and forming strong reading foundations. Teaching core skills with panache and flare helps students hold onto crucial content information.
This "color coded cap activity" gets students out of their seats, puts them in small groups that stimulate the social learning area of the brain, and challenge them to share their reasoning as they connect morphemes.
Finding creative ways to help students grasp the prefix, root, and suffix structure of morphemes is a fun challenge for teachers. The hats serve to assign students a role in choosing the affix. Students learn clusters of prefixes, roots, and suffixes. Some examples of the prefixes are pre, con, in, and re. Root words may look like vent, struct, flect and suffixes may be ion, ive, ure, and or. The student with the green hat must choose a prefix, the student with the yellow hat picks a root and the red hat student has a chance to select the suffix. Together they determine whether it is a real word, and if so, what it means. Each segment has a definition and together they solidify word meaning by adding up the meaning of its parts. While they could work independently on the worksheet, this project provides variety, movement, and collaborative learning. To do all of this, we need hats!
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