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Knowledge
- Words can be divided into smaller parts that carry meaning, which are called morphemes.
- Compound words are one word made of two independent, base words (example: hot dog is made of hot and dog).
- Affixes and inflections can be added to words to change their meaning.
Skills
- Break words down into their smallest meaningful parts (morphemes) to determine the meaning of an unknown word.
- Identify suffixes like -less, -est, -ful to determine the meaning of an unknown word.
- Divide compound words into their smaller individual words to determine the meaning of unknown words.
Understanding
- They can break words into smaller parts to determine the meaning of words that they don't know.
- Knowing affixes and inflections can also help them determine the meaning of unknown words.
- Compound words are made of two base words, and they can divide the compound word into two parts.
Vocabulary
- Identify
- Meaningful parts of words
- Morphemes
- Base words
- Compound words
- Affixes
- Inflections
