WordBits Unit 10: Y6 Autumn Morphology - Greek Combining Forms (10-Week Sequenced Unit)

A complete 10-week Year 6 Autumn term morphology unit, teaching five pairs of Greek combining forms (bio–/geo–, graph–/gram–, tele–/micro–, photo–/therm–, log–/–logy) through a fully sequenced, ready-to-teach daily structure: pick it up, read through it, and teach it with confidence.

This is Unit 10 of WordBits: The KS2 Morphology Programme, a 12-unit spiral curriculum running term by term across Y3–Y6, three units per year group, one per term, each building on the last.

What’s included:

• 37-slide presentation (PDF and PowerPoint/PPTX): cover slide plus 30 teaching slides across five two-week blocks
• 6 Rewind retrieval slides for low-stakes recap
• Full presenter notes on every slide: linguistic background, common misconceptions, and ready-to-use pupil-facing language, included as a printed document as well as built into the slides, so you’re never tied to reading off a screen
• A full Teacher’s Guide explaining the programme structure, terminology, and how to use it across the term
• A full Programme Map showing how all 12 units sequence across Y3–Y6
• Not editable: locked, polished slides, so nothing shifts or breaks on any device
• Genuine curriculum exceptions flagged and explained where they occur

This unit marks a shift in the programme: rather than a prefix attaching to an English base word, most words here are built from two Greek roots joined together (biology, telescope, autograph), with ROOT formally named throughout, building on the naming introduced in Unit 6. A handful of words break that pattern deliberately, pairing a Greek root with a standalone English base (microchip, photosynthesis, thermometer, mythology), and each exception is flagged and explained rather than glossed over.

Aligned to Year 5/6 statutory spelling and vocabulary objectives on Greek and Latin word origins, plus enrichment content, and to the explicit morphology teaching recommended in the DfE’s July 2025 Writing Framework.

Structure: Monday, Wednesday, Friday for teaching input. Tuesday and Thursday for Rewind retrieval activities. Ten teaching weeks, with two weeks built in for consolidation and assessment at your discretion.

Built for whole-class teaching, with you in the driving seat. You know your class best, so pacing, grouping, and any additional scaffolding for pupils with SEND is left in your hands, where that judgement belongs.

Everything you need to teach the whole term is in this one download.

Further units are being released in term order.

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