WA3ELAP4

For example:

• recognising that words, prefixes and suffixes are morphemes, and that morphemes are units of meaning
• applying knowledge of morphemes to decode words, such as uneventful = the prefix <un> meaning not + the base word <event> + the suffix <ful> indicating full of or characterised by
• changing the meaning of a word with a prefix, such as happy/unhappy
• using spelling generalisations when adding suffixes, such as adding <es> to make plurals for words ending in <ss>, <sh>, <ch>, and doubling the final consonant when adding the suffix <ing> to words with short vowels, such as hop, knit, sit