Workshops

Morphological Awareness for Struggling Readers

Presented by Sally Grimes, Ed.M.
November 17, 2011
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Structural Clues for Building Vocabulary and Comprehension For All Grade Levels
A morpheme (a prefix, suffix, root, or base) is the smallest unit of meaning. Good readers analyze a word’s constituent parts to find chunks of meaning. If a student is familiar with common Latin and Greek roots, then a host of words are easier to decipher. For example, building upon the Latin root structure, we can make destruction, construction, instruct, reconstruction, etc.

This workshop will provide strategies and hands-on activities for students to use their Morphological Awareness when deciphering unknown word meanings, using semantic maps and semantic feature analysis, Latin and Greek roots, cognates (especially useful for English Language Learners) and lists of the most commonly used prefixes and suffixes.

Who Should Attend?
• Regular Education Teachers
• Reading Specialists
• Literacy Coordinators
• Special Education Teachers
• ELL Teachers
• Paraprofessionals
• Speech and Language Pathologists
• Title 1 Teachers

The Presenter:
Presented by Sally Grimes, Ed.M.
The career of Sally Grimes, Ed.M. spans over thirty-six years and includes a range of positions that includes teaching learners from pre-K to graduate school, writing courses, doing clinical evaluations at North Shore Children’s Hospital, serving as Landmark School’s first Admissions Director, consulting with Massachusetts State Officials in designing professional development, training trainers, providing workshops, planning policy, and most recently serving on the newly formed Literacy Planning Team for the state of Massachusetts.

For the last 15 years of her decades long career, Sally has been consulting with districts and various other educational entities in the country, and providing professional development in literacy to parents, paraprofessionals, teachers, and administrators.

She has a Masters Degree in Reading and Human Development from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a Bachelor’s Degree in Elementary Education and in Special Education in the area of Emotional Disturbance from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Sally’s background a both a special educator and as a reading specialist along with her years of practical experience assisting schools, teachers and administrators with their Literacy Plans brings state-of-the-art ideas to the audience. Her experience with policy, parents and on her local school board broadens her reach further.