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Build morphemic word families using knowledge of prefixes and suffixes (ACELA1472)

Elaborations
  • discussing how a prefix or suffix affects meaning, for example in the word ‘paint-er’ the suffix ‘er’ means ‘one who’, so a painter is ‘one who paints’
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
ScOT terms

Silent letters,  Morphemes,  Syllables

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