E31

30. Making Sense of Suffixes: Inflectional vs. Derivational Suffixes

From Literacy in Color · Hosted by Michelle Sullivan

2025-04-01·24:17

Episode summary

In this episode of Literacy in Color: In this solo episode, Michelle Sullivan breaks down one morpheme type: suffixes . You’ll learn the difference between inflectional and derivational suffixes, how they operate in our language system, and why understanding suffixes is critical for building skilled readers, spellers, and thinkers.

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In this solo episode, Michelle Sullivan breaks down one morpheme type: suffixes . You’ll learn the difference between inflectional and derivational suffixes, how they operate in our language system, and why understanding suffixes is critical for building skilled readers, spellers, and thinkers. Michelle takes you on a deep dive into how suffixes…