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This is an accessible, practical intervention designed to support learners with specific learning difficulties (SpLD) who are struggling with spelling, reading and vocabulary. It is an effective, research-based and fun spelling solution. This book is a must for any school with struggling readers and writers aged 9-13.
List of contents
Case Studies: Morph Mastery The Pilot Morphology and the Mastery of Language: An Introduction Spelling: Friend or Foe? Key Skills in Becoming a Morph Master Golden Rules for Becoming a Morph Master Teacher Laying the Foundations: What you Need to Know Assess - Plan - Do - Review: An Overview of Morph Mastery the Intervention Measuring, Planning and Monitoring through Assessment Using the Assessments to Plan The Lessons in Detail Games and Resources Using Morph Mastery in Class What next? Appendices
About the author
Louise Selby is a primary trained teacher with 20 years of experience in teaching and supporting learners with Special Educational Needs in mainstream schools. After a number of years of class-based teaching, support teaching and SENCO experience in primary schools, Louise spent 11 years working for Hertfordshire Local Authority as a specialist advisory teacher for specific learning difficulties across the age ranges. She also works freelance in consulting, training and assessing for specific learning difficulties and dyslexia. For more information about Louise's work, visit her website on www.louiseselbydyslexia.com.
Summary
This is an accessible, practical intervention designed to support learners with specific learning difficulties (SpLD) who are struggling with spelling, reading and vocabulary. It is an effective, research-based and fun spelling solution. This book is a must for any school with struggling readers and writers aged 9-13.
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Morph Mastery uses recent research on the development of morphological knowledge to support structured and cumulative learning. The games are fun and adaptable, the learners are encouraged to develop independence through their ‘word espionage’ and the materials are engaging for all ages.
Professor Julia Carroll, Coventry University
What a fantastic resource! The characters that run through the book really facilitate the use of morphology to unlock spelling and reading for learners with SpLD. This book will appeal to primary school aged learners but also to secondary school learners, a group of learners who often get forgotten. The research based assess/plan/do/review format for the intervention will support pupils to achieve their specific targets, build their lexicon, extend their grammatical knowledge, improve their reading skills through recognition of common morphemes, and progress their spelling skills through encoding root words, prefixes, and suffixes. The addition of game-based resources should allow for the reinforcement, repetition and overlearning that so many SpLD learners need to help cement new learning.
Claire Harvey, Head of Education, Helen Arkell Dyslexia Charity
