Morphology tends to get treated like something you get to eventually. Maybe in third grade. Maybe later. Once kids have the basics down and are ready for something "more advanced."
But here's what the research actually says: children as young as preschool already have some morphological awareness. They know dogs means more than one. They know jumped means it already happened. Our job is to make it explicit.
And get this: in first grade, about 25% of the words students encounter have more than one morpheme. By third grade, it's 30%.
So even our youngest readers are running into morphologically complex words all the time, whether we're teaching morphology or not.
In my latest YouTube video, I walk through when to start teaching morphology and what early morphology instruction can look like, even in kindergarten.
P.S. Ready to go from "I should teach morphology" to actually teaching it? Join me July 20-24 for my 5-day Kickstart Your Morphology Instruction challenge. Early bird pricing is just $15. Sign up here.
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