English / Year 1 / Language / Phonics and word knowledge

Curriculum content descriptions

Recognise and know how to use simple grammatical morphemes to create word families (ACELA1455)

Elaborations
  • building word families from common morphemes, for example play, plays, playing, played, playground
  • using morphemes to read words, for example by recognising the base word in words such as ‘walk-ed’
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
ScOT terms

Phonemes

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Morphology demonstration: Adding un- prefix.

This short video (2 mins 34 seconds) provides a demonstration of how to teach a morphology lesson for adding the un- prefix.

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Morphology demonstration: Adding -ing suffix double the final consonant

This video (10 mins 17 seconds) provides a demonstration of how to teach a morphology lesson for adding the -ing suffix when doubling the final consonant.

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Morphology demonstration: Adding -s suffix for plural nouns.

This video (12 mins 21 seconds) provides a demonstration of how to teach a morphology lesson for adding the -s suffix to create plural nouns.

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Morphology instructional model

This short video (2 mins 41 seconds) provides an overview of teaching morphology using a systematic synthetic phonics (SSP) approach.

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Morphology review slides

This example morphology review slide pack is ready for classroom use, and it contain notes for teachers. It can be edited to match any morphology lesson, and aligns with the Literacy Hub phonics progression.

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Morphology lesson student worksheet: -un prefix

This worksheet for independent student practice accompanies the morphology lesson slides for adding the un- prefix.

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Morphology lesson student worksheet: -s suffix for plural nouns

This worksheet for independent student practice accompanies the morphology lesson slides for adding the -s suffix to create plural nouns.

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Morphology lesson student worksheet: -ing suffix double the final consonant

This worksheet for independent student practice accompanies the morphology lesson slides for when to double the final consonant when adding the -ing suffix.

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Morphology lesson slides: -un prefix

This sample slideshow presents a ready-to-use morphology lesson to teach adding the un- prefix, with teacher notes indicating how to teach each part of the lesson.

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Morphology lesson slides: -s suffix for plural nouns

This sample slideshow presents a ready-to-use morphology lesson to teach adding the -s suffix to create plural nouns, with teacher notes indicating how to teach each part of the lesson.

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Morphology instruction and SSP

This self-paced learning module outlines how teaching morphology complements reading and writing instruction. It explains how to plan morphology lessons using explicit instruction and daily reviews that include morphology. The module contains two webinars, free downloadable resources and further professional reading. It ...

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Morphology instruction and SSP: Q&A

This video (30 mins 38 seconds) addresses questions from teachers and school leaders about morphology and systematic synthetic phonics (SSP).

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Morphology demonstration: Adding -ed suffix to a silent e word

This video (10 mins 14 seconds) provides a demonstration of how to teach a morphology lesson for adding the -ed suffix to a silent e (split digraph) word.

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Morphology instructional model

This instructional model for morphology outlines the attributes of instruction, a lesson and review model and a sample morphology lesson plan. It illustrates a lesson sequence beginning with a review of previously learnt morphemes, followed by explicit teaching of a new morpheme.

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Morphology lesson student worksheet: -ed suffix plus split digraph words

This worksheet for independent student practice accompanies the morphology lesson slides for the suffix -ed plus split digraph words.

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Morphology lesson slides: -ing suffix double the final consonant

This sample slideshow presents a ready-to-use morphology lesson to teach when to double the final consonant when adding the -ing suffix, with teacher notes indicating how to teach each part of the lesson.

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Morphology lesson slides: -ed suffix plus split digraph words

This sample slideshow presents a ready-to-use morphology lesson to teach the -ed suffix for split digraph (silent e) words, with teacher notes indicating how to teach each part of the lesson.

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TrackSAFE Education Primary School Resources: Foundation, Year 1 and Year 2 English

This webpage includes a unit of work focuses on developing student understanding of the importance of being track safe and the key message 'Stop, Look, Listen, Think'. It builds students' familiarity with the vocabulary and key concepts related to rail safety and provides differentiated activities for writers at different ...

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'Incy Wincy Spider' sung by Teddy Rock

Watch and listen to Buzz, Belle and Bop perform the traditional nursery rhyme 'Incy Wincy Spider' in this animated music video. Use the rhyme, sung with a rock beat by Teddy Rock, to discuss, order and retell events.

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Hey diddle diddle' sung by Teddy Rock

Watch and listen as Buzz, Belle and Bop perform 'Hey diddle diddle' in this animated music video. Then try to create your own sentences that include pairs of words that sound the same at the end (rhyme).