ON-LINE RESOURCES
In this blog entry, reading specialist Mark Pennington describes his preferred strategies for teaching roots and affixes to middle school students, such as choosing the right word parts (here he includes a link to high frequency roots and affixes), teaching through analogy, and teaching through spelling. He includes a number of additional links for additional resources.
This ReadWriteThink lesson plan outlines a game for middle school students working in groups to research the meanings of a number of roots and affixes. Using the resources the lesson author provides, one could readily adapt this for ELL students. This site also gives a link to an academic discussion on student comprehension skills.
The "Teaching Middle School ESL Effectively" website provides a number of resources for teaching ELL middle school students in general.
A scholarly article written by Eman Elturki in 2011 (then a PhD student) defines morphology and gives several explicit examples of how acquiring awareness of morphemes differs between native speakers and ELL students. The host website, Mark's ESL World, is rich with information for the ESL teacher.
In this scholarly article, Lesaux and Russ summarize what is currently known about reading development of ELL students. They include references to existing research on how knowing structures of words is helpful for students.
Two websites are particularly useful for expanding student awareness about roots. The OneLook Dictionary is a great site for finding common words containing roots. On the Online Etymology Dictionary, users can find origins or and other interesting historical notes about words.
This ReadWriteThink lesson plan outlines a game for middle school students working in groups to research the meanings of a number of roots and affixes. Using the resources the lesson author provides, one could readily adapt this for ELL students. This site also gives a link to an academic discussion on student comprehension skills.
The "Teaching Middle School ESL Effectively" website provides a number of resources for teaching ELL middle school students in general.
A scholarly article written by Eman Elturki in 2011 (then a PhD student) defines morphology and gives several explicit examples of how acquiring awareness of morphemes differs between native speakers and ELL students. The host website, Mark's ESL World, is rich with information for the ESL teacher.
In this scholarly article, Lesaux and Russ summarize what is currently known about reading development of ELL students. They include references to existing research on how knowing structures of words is helpful for students.
Two websites are particularly useful for expanding student awareness about roots. The OneLook Dictionary is a great site for finding common words containing roots. On the Online Etymology Dictionary, users can find origins or and other interesting historical notes about words.