Lehman Vocab Blog

Absorbed or Assimilated Prefix - prefixes in which spelling and sound of the consonant has been absorbed into the spelling and sound at the beginning of the base or root to which the prefix is affixed. - Students need to understand this concept to be able to pronounce their words correctly.

Concept Sorts - A  concept sort  is a vocabulary and comprehension strategy used to familiarize students with the vocabulary of a new topic or book.  www.readingrockets.org/strategies/concept_sort -   It is very important that students need to be able to group items to develop their understanding.  -

Bound Morpheme - A  bound morpheme  is a word element that cannot stand alone as a word, including both prefixes and suffixes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bound_and_unbound_morphemes

Free Morpheme - A  free morpheme  is a  morpheme  (or word element) that can stand alone as a word.  Students need to realize that certain words can stand alone without any help from a prefix or suffix.  https://www.thoughtco.com/free-morpheme-words-and-word-parts-1690872

Stem - A  stem  is the root or roots of a word, together with any derivational affixes, to which inflectional affixes are added.  https://glossary.sil.org/term/stem

Etymology - the study of the origin of words and the way in which their meanings have changed throughout history. (google dictionary)