Beyond Basic Phonics
English Morphology Made Easy
by Donald L. Potter
Introduction
Beyond Basic Phonics: English Morphology Made Easy is designed for students who have finished a course in basic phonics such as Blend Phonics Lessons and Stories or my Natural Phonics Primer: A Universal Safety Net for Literacy. It is a powerful tool for helping students quickly advance their reading levels by teaching the Anglo-Saxon prefixes and suffixes; Latin prefixes, suffixes, and roots; Greek combining forms; and English homonyms.
Here is a link to the free textbook: Beyond Basic Phonics: English Morphology Made Easy
A good introduction to this approach to accelerating reading achievement by teaching the languages of origin of English is Dr. Marcia K. Henry’s “Organizing Decoding Instruction.”
Links to Video Instruction for Beyond Basic Phonics
English: Anglo-Saxon Layer - Prefixes
Lesson 1: Anglo-Saxon Prefixes I: for-, in-, with-, be-, over-, by
Lesson 2: Practice Sentences for Lesson 1
Lesson 3: Anglo-Saxon Prefixes II: un- (not), under-, a-
Lesson 4: Practice Sentences for Lesson 3
English: Anglo-Saxon Layer - Suffixes
Lesson 5: Anglo-Saxon Suffixes I: -er, -hood, -ing-, ful-, less
Lesson 6: Practice Sentences for Lesson 5
Lesson 7: Anglo-Saxon Suffixes II: -ship, -ly, -ed
Lesson 8: Practice Sentences for Lesson 7
Lesson 9: Anglo-Saxon Suffixes III: -ness, -ish, -s & -es
Lesson 10: Practice Sentences for Lesson 9
English: The Romance (Latin & French) Layer - Prefixes
Lesson 11: Romance Prefixes I: Long vowel in open syllable: re-, de-, bi-, tri-, pro-
Lesson 12: Practice Sentences for Lesson 11
Lesson 13: Romance Prefixes II: Short Vowel in Closed Syllable: dis-, sub-, mis-, ex-, trans-, con-, non-
Lesson 14: Practice Sentences for Lesson 13
Lesson 15: Romance Prefixes III: uni-, mal-, bene-, inter-, intra-, intro-, post-
Lesson 16: Practice Sentences for Lesson 15
Lesson 17: Disguised Romance Prefixes I: con- [col-, com-, cor-, co-]; in- [il-, im-, ir-]
Lesson 18: Practice Sentences for Lesson 17
Lesson 19: Disguised Romance Prefixes II: sub- [suc-, suf-, sug-]
Lesson 20: Practice Sentences for Lesson 19
Lesson 21: Disguised Romance Prefixes III: ad- [ac-, af-, ag-, al-, ap-, ar-, as-, at-]
Lesson 22: Practice Sentences for Lesson 21
English: The Romance (Latin & French) Layer - Suffixes
Lesson 23: Romance Suffixes I: -ist, -ive, -age, -ant, -ent, -or
Lesson 24: Practice Sentences for Lesson 23
Lesson 25: Romance Suffixes II: -ar (adj.) -ary, -ize, -ar (noun), -ance, -(t)ure
Lesson 26: Practice Sentences for Lesson 25
Lesson 27: Romance Suffixes III: -tion, -sion, -able, -ible
Lesson 28: Practice Sentences for Lesson 27
Lesson 29: Romance Suffixes IV: -tious, -cious, -tial, -cial
Lesson 30: Practice Sentences for Lesson 29
English: The Romance (Latin & French) Layer - Roots
Lesson 31: Romance Roots I: rupt, port, form, tract
Lesson 32: Practice Sentences for Lesson 31
Lesson 33: Romance Roots II: scrib/script, spec/spect
Lesson 34: Practice Sentences for Lesson 33
Lesson 35: Romance Roots III: stru/struct, dic/dict
Lesson 36: Practice Sentences for Lesson 35
Lesson 37: Romance Roots VI: flect/flex, mit/miss
Lesson 38: Practice Sentences for Lesson 37
Lesson 39: Romance Roots V: cred, pend, duc/duce/duct
Lesson 40: Practice Sentences for Lesson 39
Lesson 41: Romance Roots VI: pel/puls, fac/fact
Lesson 42: Practice Sentences for Lesson 41
Lesson 43: Romance Roots VII: ject, vert/vers
Lesson 44: Practice Sentences for Lesson 43
Lesson 45: Words of Romance Origin for Reading Practice
English: The Greek Layer - Greek Combining Forms
Lesson 46: Greek Combining Forms I: phon/phono, photo, auto, tele, graph/gram
Lesson 47: Practice Sentences for Lesson 46
Lesson 48: Greek Combining Forms II: ology, audio, micro, meter, therm, bio, scope, hydro
Lesson 49: Practice Sentences for Lesson 48
Lesson 50: Greek Combining Forms III: ped, arche, hyper, poly, mono, ortho, peri, phil
Lesson 51: Practice Sentences for Lesson 50
Lesson 52: Greek Combining Forms IV: gon, pol, phys, log, psych, sphere
Lesson 53: Practice Sentences for Lesson 52
Lesson 54: Words of Greek Origin for Reading Practice
A Study of English Homonyms - Anglo-Saxon Layer
Lesson 55: Homonym Practice Sentences I
roll/role, buy/by/bye, hour/our, whether/weather brake/break, sale/sail, plain/plane,
would/wood, nose/knows, haul/hall
Lesson 56: Homonym Practice Sentences II
they’re/their/there, steak/stake, capitol/capital, one/won, creak/creek, beech/beach,
wore/war, sell/cell, whole/hole
Lesson 57: Homonym Practice Sentences III
read/reed, high/hi, peace/piece, so/sew/sow, fare/fair, rain/rein/reign, no/know,
rode/road, way/weigh, your/you’re
Lesson 58: Homonym Practice Sentences IV
dessert/desert, fir/fur, flea/flee, male/mail, pain/pane, son/sun, four/for, see/sea,
weak/week
Lesson 59: Homonym Practice Sentences V
serial/cereal, two/too/to, vain/vane/vein, knew/new, write/right, bored/board,
ate/eight, blew/blue, flour/flower
Lesson 60: Homonym Practice Sentences VI
been/bin, hair/hare, merry/marry, patients/patience, tale/tail