Announcement! Hot off the press! The root CRED (to trust, to believe) and its morphological derivatives illustrate the cover of the newly published 3rd edition of Vocabulary Through Morphemes: Suffixes, Prefixes, and Roots for Intermediate and Secondary Grades, student book (Ebbers, 2025). This is published by Silvereye Learning Resources .
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This curriculum is a boost for vocabulary as well as reading and spelling. It begins with an overview of the English language, followed by a quick lesson on compound word formation. The main body of the book explores suffixes, prefixes, and roots. Suffixes not only help us determine word class or grammatical function, they also shape the meaning of a word. For example, words ending with the suffix -ic are typically adjectives, often describing behavior or characteristics: angelic, heroic, manic, energetic, electric, etc. Likewise, words ending with the suffix -ary are often nouns, and these words often describe collections of similar things, as in statuary, library, dictionary, glossary, aviary, mortuary, etc.
The curriculum includes dozens of graphic organizers, word games, word-art, word building and sorting activities. The modified Frayer chart is only one example.
The book has been in publication for almost 25 years. Happy.
