Date Approved
8-1-2024
Graduate Degree Type
Project
Degree Name
Education-Literacy Studies: Reading (M.Ed.)
Degree Program
Literacy, Educational Foundations, & Technology
First Advisor
Elizabeth Stolle
Academic Year
2023/2024
Abstract
Many adolescent learners face difficulties with reading comprehension as grades progress. Research suggests that this is due to a variety of contributing factors, including deficits in decoding, fluency, and vocabulary, in addition to content-area vocabulary becoming increasingly challenging. While research has shown the vast benefits of utilizing morphology instruction across grade levels to improve vocabulary, especially in secondary education, it is a largely underutilized area for intervention. This project explores the potential benefits of offering adolescents a morphological intervention to make grade-level vocabulary across content areas more accessible. Through the use of explicitly-taught strategies to systematically break down and employ word-solving with novel multi-morphemic words, striving readers will have tools to support their comprehension across the curriculum.
ScholarWorks Citation
Sweigart, Michelle Marie, "Utilizing Morphology Instruction to Improve Students’ Reading Proficiency" (2024). Culminating Experience Projects. 460.
https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/gradprojects/460
