How Children Learn About Words

Children learn through observing concrete examples from which they start to understand more abstract patterns.

In learning about words, the first examples of how children learn about the components of words is when they study compound words.

Butterfly, rattlesnake, inside, and grasshopper…these words with their history are fun for young minds to contemplate.

And when students master the concept in kindergarten through second grade that words have history and are put together out of other pieces, they are ready for the rest of elementary school to study prefixes, sufixxes, word roots, and country of origin.

Compound Words, Videos, Lesson Plans, and Games on VocabSpellingCity.com

Prefix games on Vocabulary.co.il

Suffix games on Vocabulary.co.il

Root Word games on Vocabulary.co.il

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