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- Welcome back.
In this video, I will share two student-centered activities
you can use with your students
to practice morphemes, especially affixes.
So the first morpheme activity practice is affixes.
The objective is for students to identify affixes in words
and sort them by meaning.
So first of all, you're gonna divide your students
into groups of three or four.
And the teacher will need to have prepared some materials.
So the first thing you'll need to have prepared
is a set of header cards.
Each group is going to receive five header cards
with the meaning of an affix written on each card.
So here are some examples.
So then next the teacher will need
to have prepared some sentence cards
and these sentence cards
are gonna be placed face down in a stack.
So here are some examples of sentence cards.
The ballet dancers spun around the dance floor,
the students were very helpful
or there was a misunderstanding about the task.
So you'll notice that the words with affixes are underlined
and the teacher will have already underlined those words.
So to do the activity, each student will take turns drawing
a card from the stack and they will read the sentence.
So for example they'll read
the ballet dancers spun around the dance floor.
Then the student will need to read the underlined word
and identify the base, the root word and the affix.
So for example, they would say the word dancer
and they would say the root or the base word is dance,
and the affix is E R.
And then the student will need to place that card
under the correct header card.
So in this example the affix is E R, which means one who,
so they place it under the header card that says one.
So the students can continue until all the cards
are placed under the correct header card
and then the teacher can circulate to answer any questions
or verify any answers.
As an extension, groups can rotate sets of cards
and do the activity again.
So ideally, each group will have a different set of cards
and they can do this activity a few different times.
As another extension, you can make this into a competition
and time the students to see which group can finish
the fastest.
So this is a good practice activity
because it's controlled with specific answers.
Now I'll share with you a morpheme activity
that helps students produce words
and sentences with affixes.
So this is a production activity.
The objective is for students to produce words with affixes
and to use them in a sentence.
So, first of all you're gonna divide your students
into groups of three or four
and you're gonna need to have prepared some materials.
So here are the materials that you'll need.
You're gonna need a game board like the one shown here.
Each circle on the game board has a different affix on it.
You're also gonna need some dice, one die for each student.
A dictionary would also be helpful.
And then you're gonna need some game piece markers.
So to play the game, students
are gonna take turns, rolling the die
and then moving the number of spaces
that are indicated on the die.
They're going to look at the affix that they land on
and they're going to think of a word that has that affix,
that uses that affix
and then they're going to use that word in a sentence.
So for example, if they land on the affix F U L,
they can say the word helpful.
And they might say a sentence
such as my classmates are very helpful.
So if their answer is correct,
they can keep their game piece on the new space,
if not, they return their game piece to the old space.
And so the teacher can circulate to answering questions
or verifying answers and the students should continue
until each player reaches the end of the game board.
This is a great production activity
because it's open ended and students need to produce words
and produce sentences for affixes.
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So I hope these activities are helpful and that you can use
them in your classroom with your students sometime soon.
Thanks so much for watching.
I'll see you next time.