Sue's Strategies
Morphology Magic
Learn to turn
1 root word into 6
& 6 Words into 48!
A fast, effective method to increase vocabulary!
“Sue’s curriculum fills in essential gaps of concepts not being covered by today’s educational system. These strategies are vital for learning to master vocabulary and to improve comprehension.”
Morphology Magic
Learn to Turn 1 Root Word into 6 & 6 into 48!
What are the benefits of expanding your vocabulary?

- Improve reading comprehension
- Enhance oral speaking
- Write more precisely
- Learn syntax
Learn how to understand and use the building blocks of morphology: prefixes, root or base words, suffixes.
- A root or base word contains the core meaning of the word in its simplest form.
- A prefix is an attachment before the word, like pretest & retest.
- A suffix is an attachment after the word, like tested & testing.
Find out how morphology works to create new words.
- Start with one root or base word.
- Add 6 different prefixes to that root word to build 6 new words.
- Add suffixes to these new words to transform their part of speech. A verb may turn into a noun, an adjective, or an adverb.
- 1 root and 1 prefix can change into 3 verb forms, 2 noun forms, 3 adjective forms, and sometimes an adverb. Some roots can create even more than eight words. Therefore, six root words times 8 for adding different affixes create 48 new words.
- Learning 48 words in a week or two is AN EFFECTIVE METHODOLOGY!