Long words are built from small, meaningful parts. Teach students to see them.
Welcome to The Morphology Kit®, created by Sound Literacy Solutions. We offer professional learning and resources for instructors and parents teaching structured literacy to students in grades 4 and up, with a focus on morphology.
A comprehensive course of lessons and activities featuring high-utility Latin morphemes, designed to build morphological awareness in students in grade 4 and up. Each lesson builds on the last, with review built in.
Every Morpheme Lesson focuses on a single Latin morpheme, such as the base element PORT, so students master one meaningful unit at a time.
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A Core Lesson, then practice
An instructor-led Core Lesson is followed by word chains, segmenting, word building, sorting, matching, word families, morpheme scrambles, and connected text.
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Ready to teach tomorrow
PowerPoint and PDF files with an Instructor Guide and Answer Keys. Digital game versions of the activities are also available.
A research-based instructional approach that integrates morphology, phonology, orthography, semantics, and syntax into cohesive, explicit, multicomponent lessons. Students meet high-utility morphemes again and again, in meaningful ways, to strengthen vocabulary, spelling, and automatic word recognition.
The Morphology Kit has been truly life-changing for my son and our family… After consistent instruction with the Morphology Kit, he is now reading with confidence. He actively tackles complex, multisyllabic words and is even spelling better than he had expected.
Parent of one of Mary’s 4th grade students · Summer 2026
My dyslexic fifth grader has benefited tremendously from working with Mary. The morphology-based learning has given her skills that apply not only to reading and writing English, but other languages, and science and math too. It’s a fundamental approach to learning that I haven’t seen taught outside of college-level classes.
Parent of one of Mary’s 5th grade students
“All teachers need to know this! No one really teaches teachers about language.”
Research-informed, practical literacy training. Start with a self-paced course here, or bring Mary’s workshops and sessions to your school, district, or conference live or on Zoom.
“Today I used some of your suggestions about morphemes with a boy I tutor… I presented it similarly to the way you had it in various slides, both his reading words and spelling them, AND… he did absolutely fabulously! He and I and his mother were so happy.”
Natasha Hays, MD · the day after Mary’s session, Designing Engaging and Effective Morphology Lessons
Schools, districts & conferences
Bring Mary to your team
Live workshops, conference sessions, and Zoom sessions drawn from the same content as the courses. No Kit purchase required.
Founder, Sound Literacy Solutions Creator of The Morphology Kit®
Mary is a structured literacy specialist, educational interventionist, and national presenter. For the past 20 years, she has worked with students, educators, and families to help readers become confident, successful learners.
She serves on the Board of Directors for the Washington State branch of the International Dyslexia Association and moderates The Morphology Teacher’s Hub, a community where educators discuss teaching morphology.
Carry K–3 structured literacy gains into grade 4 and beyond.
After grade 3, morphology becomes a primary lever for vocabulary, spelling, and comprehension. Train your team with Mary, then equip each instructor with the Kit. Licenses are per instructor, with volume pricing.
Created by Mary McFarlin, M.A., C-SLDS