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Improve Your Spelling with Morphemes.

Improve Your Spelling With Morphemes. by SoftwareGuru posted Friday 28th November 2008 15:16 GMT For teachers across Ireland, choosing the right software can be tricky when it comes to spelling, grammar and phonetics. From a very early age, children have a huge capacity to hear and interpret sounds. This is why it is of critical importance to a child's education that they are encouraged to read as much as possible. Primary schools are indeed no strangers to software that specialises in improving spelling, grammar and phonetics. In Ireland, there is the popular Learning Horizons software such as Sounds To Words which our sister site SAMI.ie licenses to schools. Now researchers are claiming that children would spell better if they knew about 'morphemes'. Today Software4Students.ie will take a closer look at this idea.	School Software in Ireland can improve spelling.
Making Teacher's Lives Easier with Software.	What is a Morpheme? Morpheme: a combination of sounds that have a meaning. A morpheme does not necessarily have to be a word. Example: the word cats has two morphemes. Cat is a morpheme, and s is a morpheme. Every morpheme is either a base or an affix. An affix can be either a prefix or a suffix. Cat is the base morpheme, and s is a suffix. Why would this improve spelling? The difficulty arises when the spelling of a word, such as laughter, differs from what the pronunciation suggests. If spelling cannot be predicted from the way a word sounds, it is possible that its meaning can help instead. For instance, the word "tactician" consists of two morphemes: the stem "tactic" and the suffix "ian". Pupils find the word difficult to spell because the third syllable sounds like "shun". But if they knew it was made up of the two morphemes, they could make more sense of the way it is spelled, researchers suggest. Teachers only have so much time to teach during the day. Therefore intelligent software can play a significant role in enhancing the daily learning curriculum both inside and outside of the classroom. In this era of text messaging and abbreviations, spelling must not compromised or dumbed down simply because society has grown more impatient and less willing to tackle issues that cannot be solved instantly. High educational standards and innovative analytical thought must be encouraged where it is in English, Science or any other subject. And to think I thought a morpheme was something to do with Tony Hart!

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