ABSTRACT
Effective teachers develop the habit of using elevated language that they make accessible to students by self-translating and simplifying as they go. They also do that process in reverse: translating the student's "everyday" language into "academic" language. A combining form is similar to a prefix in that it appears at the beginning of a word. Suffixes perform a different service to a word: Rather than changing the meaning of the word, the suffix changes how the word can fit into a sentence grammatically. Nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs each tend to favor particular suffixes. Students should get used to trying on different suffixes to the target word. Connectives are syllables stuck between the combining form or root and the suffix that allow the word to be easily pronounceable in English. An important part of knowing all about a word knows how it changes by adding suffixes that allow it to fit into sentences.
