Spring Flower Morpheme Mat

If your learners are ready for a fun way to work on morphemes, you’ll enjoy this free Spring Flower Morpheme Mat.

Check out all my freebies for multisyllable words or Spring Printables and Activities.

*Find the FREE digital download by scrolling down on this post and clicking on the TEAL download button.

What are Morphemes?

Morphemes are the smallest unit of MEANING in words. It can be one letter, like the s in cats {meaning more than one} or a chunk of letters, like the un in unhappy {meaning not}.

As learners get deeper into word study, a study of Greek roots and Latin stems is important. Not only does this help our learners READ longer words by recognizing the chunks in words, but understanding the meaning of these common stems and roots build our learners’ vocabulary, thus supporting comprehension.

A few of the most common Greek roots are: auto, bio, graph, hydr, geo, meter, logy/ology, phon/phone, photo, scope, sphere, tele, and therm.

A few of the most common Latin stems are: audi, dict, ject, port, rupt, scrib/script, spect, struct, tract, and vis.

For more about morphemes, visit my post, Morphology in Structured Literacy.

Spring Flower Morpheme Mat

Today, I’m sharing a spring-themed morpheme mat. At the center of the daisy, learners can write a Greek root or a Latin stem.* On the flower petals, learners should think of and write words that contain the stem or root.

Take for example the stem port. Learners can work individually or with a small group to come up with other words with the stem such as portfolio, teleport, deport, or support.

You might also like our DIGITAL AND PRINTABLE Latin Stem Cards or Greek Root Cards.

*Younger learners adaptation: If you teach younger learners who are ready for prefixes or suffixes, instead of writing a morpheme in the middle of the flower, have your learners write a prefix {or suffix} in the middle of the flower and look for or think of words with that affix. For example, if the prefix is re-, write “re” in the middle and then write words with re- on the flower pedals such as reread, rewind, remind, etc.

Download the free morpheme mat below:

Enjoy teaching morphemes!
~Becky

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