New Curriculum Teaches the Meaning of Words
Looking for a good resource to teach students the meaning in words? Foundations is a new program from Dynamic Literacy that teaches “morphology,” or the meaning of words. Just as phonics helps students “sound out” unfamiliar words, a mastery of Morphics helps a student “mean out” unfamiliar words.
Grade Level: 3-5, but available for intervention in grades 6 and higher
Bottom line: This curriculum teaches students how English words are constructed by focusing on the meanings of prefixes, roots and suffixes, also known as morphemes. Once students learn the definitions of common morphemes, they gain the skills to decipher thousands of unfamiliar words, and their vocabularies increase exponentially.
Prices start at $9.95, with volume discounts to $5.95 for individual student activity books, plus $99 per teacher for software and instructional materials.

