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Root Words
Ten pages offer useful information and five activities designed to reinforce the concept of root words. Scholars make a root word booklet, partake in a matching activity that challenges them to match root words to their meaning, record...
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Vocabulary in Context: Inside the World of Wizards
Enter the world of Harry Potter and learn new vocabulary at the same time. A high-interest reading passage provides insight into the history of Harry Potter. Follow-up activities incorporate key vocabulary strategies, such as using...
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Match Prefixes/Suffixes
In this online interactive vocabulary skills worksheet, students match 5 words to the appropriate 5 prefixes or suffixes. Students may submit their answers to be checked.
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Assimilated Prefix: Com
Second and third graders rewrite the 20 words on the lines that contain 'com' prefixes. They give base words and add suffixes to form longer words.
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It's Greek to Me!
Use Greek roots, suffixes, and prefixes to create polysyllabic words. Readers use the dictionary to identify what the word's prefix, suffix, and root or base word mean. They define what a syllable is and how one is formed using Greek...
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Naming Binary Molecular Compounds
She has been reading that book about helium all day; she just can't put it down! Presentation begins with the rules for naming binary molecular compounds using prefixes and suffixes. After a list of prefixes for review, it offers guided...
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Word Roots Lesson #6 - Focus: hydr
Use hydr as a base to form new words. The chart provided includes different prefixes and suffixes one could add to the base to create new words like hydrant or hydropathy. Two exercises follow the information provided to give your class...
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Suffixes and Prefixes
Here is a pdf file of two colorful handouts; one explains and gives examples of prefixes, the other presents suffixes.Â
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Identify Base Words and Suffixes to Read Multisyllabic Words #1
Show your scholars how adding an affix changes the entire meaning of a word; they focus on the suffix -able. You'll find a complete script here, but if you don't want to read this verbatim, use it simply as an outline. Learners watch you...
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Spelling
Young scholars are taught the spellings of some words with a specific prefix. They comprehend the terms prefix and suffix. Students define the word pre as before and they relate the definition of prefix: the letter blends come before the...
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Etymology
Learners dissect and build words from parts like prefixes, base words, suffixes, and inflectional endings. Etymology skills help us find the meanings of words by identifying the different parts that constitute them. Class members use...
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The Language of Our World
Students combine prefixes and suffixes to form nonsense words and sentences in the style of Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky."Â In this "Jabberwocky" lesson, students brainstorm ways to decode an unfamiliar word and apply these skills to the...
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Total English Intermediate: Suffix or Prefix?
In this intermediate suffix or prefix activity, students examine the words in italics in 8 sentences and choose the appropriate suffix or prefix. Students also use prefixes and suffixes to form words.
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Literacy Revision
In this Language Arts activity, students participate in a variety of grammar activities. For example, students write the plural form of six words and find the prefixes and suffixes of six words.
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Understanding and Using Suffixes to Expand Vocabulary
After a review of what suffixes are and how they are used, middle schoolers utilize a worksheet that is embedded in the plan to work in pairs to strengthen their understanding and skills in using these very important parts of our...
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Derivational Suffixes Worksheet
In this suffixes worksheet, learners learn that derivational suffixes change the meaning of words and the part of speech. Students write the original meaning of six words, add the suffix, and write the new meaning.
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Grammar: Adding a Prefix and Suffix
Fourth graders practice adding a prefix and/or suffix to base words. In this spelling review lesson, 4th graders review how to add a prefix and suffix to a word and complete a worksheet demonstrating their learning.
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My Reading Words in My Social Studies Book?
Connect social studies and language arts using this resource. After studying root words, have learners locate five words from their social studies book that have a prefix, suffix, or root word. This puts a new twist on practicing basic...
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Guided Reading Organizer for Chain Reaction
The class uses Chain Reaction, a magazine, to build a better understanding of Latin and Greek roots found in scientific vocabulary. They use two attached worksheets to help them read a scientific article, using visual clues and their...
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Word Roots Lesson #2 - Focus: derm
Identifying root words and their prefixes and suffixes develops a reader's vocabulary. The focus of this quick practice opportunity is the root word derm. Prefixes and suffixes are identified, and then your charges complete two short...
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Adding Prefixes to Words
In this grammar instructional activity, 3rd graders write new words by adding a prefix to each of 10 words. They use the prefixes; bi, un, mis, dis, in, mid, re, and en.
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Prefixes
In this grammar worksheet, students add the correct prefix to 15 words. Students also write another word beside it that has the same suffix.
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School-Home Links: Root Words and Suffixes
In this spelling new words worksheet, students learn to figure out the meaning of a new word by learning the root word and suffix. Students put the root words and suffixes together to make new words and write those words on the line....
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Heroic Vocabulary: Using Decoding Strategies and Thesaurus
Develop the decoding skills of your middle and high schoolers. Scholars participate in a classroom activity that requires them to decode a word with a prefix and suffix. They apply the skill of breaking the word into parts of meaning as...
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