What is Semantics – Morphology?
To understand language, a child must understand the meaning of word parts (morphology) and individual words within the language (vocabulary), but more than that, a child must understand that words are arranged in phrases, sentences, and discourse in meaningful ways. The child must understand how to use language to communicate complete and meaningful ideas. What does teaching Semantics – Morphology look like? Semantics activities involve helping children to examine meaning at various different levels (word parts, whole words, and sentences / discourse). Activities involving word parts can focus on helping children to see that words with common roots have similar meanings or that affixes change the meanings of words. Activities involving whole words can help children to develop vocabulary, by, for example, focusing on how words are used in stories or by encouraging them to keep records of interesting and related words. Activities involving sentences and discourse help children to use con
