Talking Dyslexia Episode 6: Talking Dyslexia is a podcast from Talamo and the British Dyslexia Association. Hosted by Ellen Broome and Jamie Wace, each episode explores what dyslexia really means at school, at work, and in everyday life.
Morphology—the study of how roots, prefixes, and suffixes combine to create meaning in words—is vital for all learners, and an integral part of our English curriculum. By focusing on word patterns and meanings, morphology supports learners at all levels and abilities in vocabulary, reading comprehension, and spelling skills. Dyslexic learners in particular benefit from the meaningful study of words.In this blog, I’ll share ten practical ways to use Morph Mastery, a compendium of morphology resources, in different settings.
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If I produced a stick of rock to represent my work (now there’s an idea!), the words inside would be “supporting schools”. I love collaboration, I love enabling, empowering and equipping in all things literacy and dyslexia, and I love schools. In this blog you’ll read about one amazing school I have worked with over almost two years, and you’ll see a video of Morph Mastery in action. Westcourt Primary School in Gravesend have not only talked the Morph Mastery talk, but they walk the walk, through thick and thin.
Our language is morphophonemic; in other words it is based on both morphological and phonological structure (units of sound). Approximately 80% of English words contain more than one morpheme. These morphemes are used across a number of words, and therefore can be generalised. They have been described by Rastle (2018) as “islands of regularity in the mapping between printed words and their meaning”. Morphology is not a whole word approach, nor is it an alternative to phonics. Morphemes literally make sense of language and they are entirely necessary as part of cracking the code of English spelling.
Systematic synthetic phonics (SSP) is recommended in the Department for Education Reading Framework, but not exclusively so for pupils with SEND. For them, the recommended methodology is most crucial: a highly structured, multi-sensory, cumulative approach to intervention which meets individual learners’ needs, and a whole school approach to using assessment to identify different needs. Morph Mastery meets all these methodological criteria and it complements an SSP approach. I’m excited about schools across the country who, having implemented SSP effectively, are now looking for Morph Mastery training to complement their strategy; this reflective practice is what our learners need.
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