Morphology Monday! August 9 was Book Lovers Day! Today's Word Root resource focuses on 2 important roots: "Phil" = Love "Bibli" = Book Please share for other educators & parents who may want to use this resource with students.

MORPHOLOGY MONDAY! 1/2 May is National Moving Month, the time of year many families pack up & move to another location. This week’s Word Roots focus are mov, mot, mobil = move . Morphology instruction is a proven & science-based approach to increasing students’ vocabularies.

MORPHOLOGY MONDAY! May is “National Inventors Month”. Thus, the word root for this week is VEN/VENT = COME. Please see the resource below and feel free to share it with your own colleagues. Thank you for all you do to instill a love of words and word study in your students.

WORD LADDER WEDNESDAY! Friday May 15 is National Pizza Party Day! Below is a special Word Ladder to celebrate! Learn more about National Pizza Party Day at nationaldaycalendar.com/.../…

Morphology Monday! Here are two word root resources for this week! April 1-7 is National Walking Week (word root ambul = walk, wander, take steps) (2 pages) April 1 is National Cent Day (word root cent = 100).

1/2 MORPHOLOGY MONDAY! March 15 is World Contact Day. Thus, this week’s morpheme/word root focus is tact/tag/tang- = touch (see below). Find out more about World Contact Day at (nationaltoday.com/world-cont…? ) I hope you find this resource helpful.

MORPHOLOGY MONDAY! March is Women’s History Month and March 8 is International Women’s Day ! Thus, this week’s word root focuses on the Word Roots "fem/femi" and "gyn/gynec" = "woman". I hope you find this resource helpful.

WORD LADDER WEDNESDAY! Here's a Word Ladder to help continue the celebration & study of Presidents’ Day in the US. Word Ladders are an effective & inexpensive supplement to any phonics or vocab program! You can find my word study & fluency resources at shop.scholastic.com/.../sear…...

1/2 Morphology Monday! This week’s Morphology Monday word root celebrates “Presidents’ Day” in the US (2.16)! Thus, this week’s focus word roots are: sid, sed, sess = sit . I hope you find this resource helpful in building students’ vocabularies and interest in words.

WORD LADDER WEDNESDAY! February 2nd is Groundhog Day in the US and Canada! Here's a word ladder to help celebrate the day! Learn more about Groundhog Day at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground… I hope you find this word ladder useful in your phonics/vocabulary/word study program.

1/2 MORPHOLOGY MONDAY! Something different this week. Below is a link to a recent Edutopia article on Semantic Gradients as an approach to build students’ vocabularies and interest in words. edutopia.org/article/how-to-…

WORD LADDER WEDNESDAY! Today's Word Ladder focuses on the "-ain" word family. They come from my new books with poet David Harrison & reading scholar Dr. Mary Jo Fresch – "Partner Poems and Word Ladders" (K-2 & 1-3). The reviews of the books have been great so far!

MORPHOLOGY MONDAY! Jan 19-23 is “National No-Name-Calling Week.” Thus, this week’s target morphemes/word roots are Nomin/Onym = Name. You can learn more about National No Name Calling Week at nationaltoday.com/no-name-ca… . I hope you find this helpful in bldg students’ vocabulary.

FLUENCY FRIDAY! Here’s one of my favorite poems for the New Year. I hope you and your students like it too! Rehearsing and performing poetry and song is an excellent (and artful) way to build reading fluency (SOR) – automatic word recognition and prosody (expressiveness).