What is it about?
The impact of morphological knowledge on students' literacy development has been well documented. The purpose of this tutorial is to illustrate how school-based speech-language pathologists (SLPs) can target morphology in their interventions to support their students' literacy development. This tutorial includes a review of the concepts and terminology essential to providing morphological interventions, the norm-referenced and informal assessments that can be used to assess students' morphological knowledge, and intervention strategies to use across multiple grade levels that are aligned with the Common Core State Standards. This tutorial provides school-based SLPs with the information needed to get started developing and implementing interventions with morphology at the core.
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Why is it important?
The significance of students' morphological knowledge on literacy skill development has been the focus of numerous studies in recent years. Several studies have found morphological awareness to be correlated with vocabulary knowledge, reading ability, and spelling.
Perspectives
Literacy interventions with morphology at the core are particularly beneficial because increases in morphological knowledge often results in increases in spelling, decoding, vocabulary knowledge, graphophonemic awareness, and even reading comprehension.
Professor Ginger G Collins
University of Montana
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This page is a summary of: Morphological Interventions to Support Literacy From Kindergarten to Grade 12, Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, August 2023, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA),
DOI: 10.1044/2023_persp-23-00059.
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