Middle School Morphology (Abduct)

Lesson One

Middle schoolers who lost their foundational literacy years to Covid need more than phonics and decoding to catchup: they also need morphology.

Each post in this Middle School Morphology series contains a diagram that provides comprehensive information about a word that will help students understand its origin, structure, and usage. Students will be able to use each word's prefix and root combination as keys to unlock the meanings of thousands of other words. Finally, each post will have a lesson plan that equips teachers to help students analyze, decode, and acquire vocabulary by participating thoughtfully and confidently in the learning process.

Guided Reasoning Lesson Plan

Abduct

Ab

Duct (from the Latin verb ducere)

Defining the word:

What does this word mean?

Using Context Clues:

Let's get a better idea of what this word means by looking at how it is used in the sentence below:

The villains abducted the king's son and refused to return him until the king paid a ransom of one million dollars.

Based on how it's used in the sentence, what does "abduct" mean?

I think abduct means to _______________________________.

How did the word get its meaning?

(We are going to be moving from the whole word to its parts since we know that words get

their meanings from their parts.)

First, let's break the word into its parts:

ab  duct

Now let's figure out what each of these parts mean.

Drawing conclusions:

What we know:

1. Abduct means to _____________________.

2. The prefix "ab" is the first part of the word, and it means "__________________."

So, since "ab" means "_________________" and abduct means to ___________________,

"duct" might mean "____________________."

Decoding other words with these parts

Let's look at other words that contain these parts. 

All these words have the word-part(s) "______" in them; therefore, they all contain the idea

of _____________________.

Let's try to define these words based on our knowledge of word parts and the way the words

are used in sentences.

Other words that use the root(s) duct, duce:

Produce

Conduct

Reduce

Induct

Seduce

1.       It is our job to produce enough iPhones so we can sell them to our many customers. 

2.       The person waving the baton is the leader who conducts the musical orchestra.

3.       We need to reduce the amount of junk food we eat if we want to stay thin.

4.       Before we induct you into our organization, you must prove yourself.

5.       Although the beautiful enchantress attempted to seduce the knight, she couldn't convince him to betray his country.

Summary

We learned that the prefix ________ means ____________.

We also learned that the word-part __________ means __________.

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