word cracking morphology training
Included in your membership!
If you want to teach morphology, this course will give you everything you need to get started.
What you will learn about morphology
The course assumes you are a beginner and takes you step-by-step, including what morphology is, why it is so important and how to teach it in the classroom (Tier 1 & 2) and intervention settings (Tier 3).
This training course aims to provide participants with an understanding of what morphology is and how to teach it. It includes detailed information about the rules of how words are formed, how they function, and why this improves vocabulary, reading and comprehension skills.
Key learning outcomes include:
- Understanding how to teach morphology to Tier 1, 2 and 3 students in the classroom and intervention settings.
- Understanding the different parts of words and how they function, such as roots, prefixes, and suffixes.
- Developing the ability to analyse and identify the different parts of words and understand their meanings.
- Understanding the relationships between words and their meanings, such as how changes to a word’s structure can change its meaning.
- Developing the ability to use knowledge of word structure to understand and analyse new words.
- Developing the ability to use knowledge of word structure to improve vocabulary and reading comprehension.
- Understanding the big four spelling rules of word formation.
- Recognize, extract, and analyse morphemes in words.
- Apply morphology knowledge to improve spelling, reading, and writing.
- Understand the etymology of words and how it relates to their current usage.
Course Content
When delivered face-to-face, the course takes approximately 3.5 hours. We estimate that it might take a similar amount of time to complete the online training, but it will depend on how quickly you move through it and how long you take to do the practical exercises. There are approximately 2.5 hrs of video content in the online training.
With easy-to-follow videos, plenty of practical exercises, the ability to work at your own pace, and the ability to revise concepts as often as you like, this course will set you and your students up for success.
Course presenters
Bill Hansberry
Sally Andrew
Sally holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Dyslexia and Literacy from the University of York, UK. Sally has been tutoring students with dyslexia for 20 years and has trained many parents and educators in evidence-based multisensory interventions for dyslexia. Sally is the director of By Your Side Tutoring.
Sally runs the popular Teaching Students with Dyslexia (TSD) suite of training for Specialist Multisensory Literacy Teachers. Sally co-developed the Word Cracker suite of morphology resources with Bill Hansberry.
The benefits of the Word Cracking system
Less preparation time
Means you can focus on teaching.
English is complex. Don’t waste your precious teaching time re-inventing the wheel. Word Cracker is a complete morphology program with every lesson and every teaching point designed and built by structured literacy experts.
Whole school consistency
Every teacher reinforcing the same ideas and concepts.
Students need high-quality, consistent instruction across the board. Word Cracker allows them to move from teacher to teacher, subject to subject and year to year without having to learn new terminology and meta language.
Complex spelling made easy
Instant patterning, definitions and text to voice at your fingertips.
It is difficult to think on your feet and recall the meaning of every morpheme, or pattern a word, while trying to manage a class and deal with random questions!
Imagine having every morpheme definition at your fingertips or automatically detecting safe and dangerous end patterns. Word cracker lets you do this with the click of a button.
Teach your way or follow the suggested sequence
A set structure doesn't stop you teaching your way
Word Cracker has a detailed and structured sequence for teaching morphology. But it also gives you complete control over the morphemes you want to use. Choose any combination of the built-in morphemes and lessons, or make your own by typing straight onto the cracker.
Included in your membership
Morphology Training Course
A comprehensive introduction to morphology
Step-by-step guidance for teaching morphemes
Strategies for integrating morphology into phonics instruction
Understanding and teaching morphemes for vocabulary and comprehension
Self-paced modules for flexible learning
Practical application exercises and case studies
Certificate for PD
Word Cracker Software
Interactive Word Cracker with hundreds of inbuilt morphemes, presets and matrices
28 lesson presets
The ability to create and save custom presets
Safe and dangerous word patterns indicator
Built-in morpheme definitions
Text-to-voice feature for morphemes and custom words
Access to new exciting features when they are available
Classroom Lesson plans
A comprehensive sequence for teaching suffixing
25 Lesson plans for whole-class instruction
7 step spelling rule sequence
11 suffixing lessons
7 prefix lessons
Lesson presets, including suggested bases and roots for each teaching point
Classroom vocabulary building exercises
Downloadable templates
Playberry™ Tier 3 intervention integration
Playberry™ spelling rules chart
Playberry™ teaching point references
Playberry™ modification suggestions
Playberry™ sequence built into lesson presets
Access to Word Cracker Teachers facebook group
Intervention Worksheets & Templates
Screening and diagnostic tools
Step-by-step handwriting instruction
Fluency development and reading sheets
High-frequency word sequence and worksheets
Fine-grained phonics instruction
Game templates and online games
More worksheets every week!