Morphology is a powerful teaching tool for developing vocabulary knowledge and building spelling mastery. Many words in the English language have multiple morphemes (word parts that carry meaning) - for example, the word inflexible is comprised of a base (flex), prefix (in) and suffix (ible).
Over 48 different word bases are included, with the base meaning, origin and word examples.
Base so far included:
- ten
- flex
- tain
- fer
- act
- cred
- frag
- fract
- vest
- sect
- fin
- pel
- flict
- fix
- grad
- tend
- vent
- jur
- fact
- cept
- fact
- ceed
- pend
- log
- sist
- sym
- cycl
- poly
- miss
- path
- scope
- chron
- auto
- eco
- aud
- capt
- spir
- geo
- vis
- graph
- tele
- quest
- photo
- milli
- aqua
- mot
- cult
- arch