“Teaching children how to identify and combine parts of words is an important component of a comprehensive approach to reading and spelling instruction, new ACU research shows.
The study, led by ACU’s Australian Center for the Advancement of Literacy, found incorporating morphology instruction into the primary school classroom improves students’ ability to read and spell.
Lead researcher Dr. Danielle Colenbrander said the study, published in Educational Psychology Review, found morphology instruction—the breaking down of words into their meaningful parts—benefited students’ reading and spelling of directly taught words, with evidence it could also improve their ability to spell untaught words.”