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Vocabulary
- Meaningful parts of words
- Morphemes
- Clues
- Unfamiliar words
- Base words
- Roots
- Affixes
- Inflections
Knowledge
- Morphemes are the smallest unit in a word that carry meaning.
- Morphemes can be used to determine meanings of words.
- Affixes and inflections can be added to words to change their meaning.
Skills
- Identify morphemes and use them as clues to determine word meaning, including affixes like -less, -ful, pro-, trans- and roots like aqua, cent, port, form, ject, spect, dict, tend, fer.
Understanding
- Base words, roots, affixes, inflections and other morphemes can be used to help find the meaning of unfamiliar words.
