This 3-week course will help educators build a deeper understanding of morphology, so they can evaluate and design curriculum that serves their students in the best way possible. Learn what inaccuracies to look for and how to correct them to keep your students out of confusion. You will learn how to look not just at the surface spelling of a word, but the underlying substructure and why this is essential for the most accurate understanding. We will study how to determine the difference between a base element and a Latin or Greek root. You will learn how to use word sums to recognize the complete structure of complex vocabulary that students commonly encounter in their content area studies. You will use the suffixing conventions to analyze word structure and changes that occur when adding suffixes to bases. Most importantly, you will learn about the importance of the silent, or non-syllabic, <e> and why its inclusion at the end of some bases opens up a new world of understanding.</e>