MIDDLE SCHOOL ENGLISH INSTRUCTION: Unit 1, Lesson 2 Activity # 1

MORPHEMES ACTIVITY
Directions: Use the following 45 morphemes to create at least 10 words
related to language and vocabulary. No morpheme is used more than
once, unless it is included more than once on the list.

EXAMPLE:

Mophemes:
acro (high or height) graph (write or written) phob (fear/fearful)
geo (earth) ic (like or similar to) y (tending to)

Words that can be assembled from the morphemes:

acrophobia (fear of heights), geography (something written about the
earth), graphic (like writing)

Remember, you can use the lists of roots, prefixes, and suffixes at the links
already mentioned to look up the definition of any morpheme.

MORPHEMES
alpha cogn gener ize pol
ant com hens lab pol
ar con ic logy pre
ate de ing morph re
ation di intro multi rect
ary duce ion non s
bet eme ity onym syl
bul etymo ive para text
cod extra ize phrase voca

WORDS YOU CREATED FROM THE MORPHEMES

1 6

2 7

3 8

4 9

5 10

16 words can actually be created from the morphemes listed above!