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Syracuse City School District

Greek and Latin Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
How can adding a prefix or suffix to a root word create an entirely new word? Study a packet of resources that focuses on Greek and Latin roots, as well as different prefixes and suffixes that learners can use for easy reference.
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Curated OER

Prefixes and Suffixes

For Students 3rd - 5th
Use this interactive tool to introduce your learners to prefixes and suffixes. First they use a crossword puzzle to find the opposites of the words provided. Then, they take a list of words and possible suffixes, matching the appropriate...
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LearnEnglishFeelGood.com

English Prefixes and Suffixes

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Match prefixes and suffixes to their definition in a 10-problem grammar worksheet. Prefixes and suffixes in focus include muta-, pre-, aud-, post-, psych-, fid-, -ize, -dox, -urb, and anti-.
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Curriculum Corner

Prefix and Suffix Cards

For Students 4th Standards
Activate scholars' knowledge of prefixes and suffixes with a matching game that challenges learners to identify meanings, build words, and write and illustrate sentences. 
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Book Units Teacher

Skill Lessons – Prefixes and Suffixes

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Sometimes the best way to understand a concept is to break it down. Young vocabulary pupils work with word parts in a hands-on activity that prompts them to connect flash cards with affixes to their root and base words....
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What are Prefixes and Suffixes?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners explore prefixes and suffixes. In this word analysis and technology lesson, students define and identify prefixes and suffixes as they participate in an interactive series of SMART Board activities.
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National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition

Building Vocabulary: Prefixes, Roots, and Suffixes

For Teachers 3rd - 10th Standards
Word roots, prefixes, and suffixes can hold the key to determining the meaning of a host of different words. Included here are five pages of prefixes, roots, and suffixes paired with their meanings and example words.
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Curated OER

Prefixes and Suffixes

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this guessing the mystery words activity, learners read the clues, count the number of letters, and write the words with either prefixes or suffixes. Students write 10 answers.
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Curated OER

Prefixes, Suffixes, and Root Words

For Students 4th
Learners write down the prefix and suffix that was added to each of ten root words. They fill in the blanks that before and after the word in the table.
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Curated OER

Prefixes and Suffixes

For Students 4th - 8th
In this prefixes and suffixes worksheet, students match prefixes and suffixes to their meanings. Students complete 15 matches and write words that use the roots that they are given.
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Curated OER

Identify Base Words and Suffixes to Read Multisyllabic Words #1

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
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...
Interactive
Curated OER

Match Prefixes/Suffixes

For Students 2nd - 4th
Here is a prefixes and suffixes worksheet in which learners take a root word from column one and add a prefix or suffix from column two to make a word. They make five words.
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Curated OER

Match Prefixes/Suffixes: Exercise 5

For Students 3rd - 5th
Give your elementary learners an opportunity to practice matching prefixes and suffixes to create words. Word combinations like honor and able are included, but learners should be able to match up the combinations correctly since only...
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Curated OER

Pendemonium: The Italian Job

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Discover how to use prefixes and suffixes to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words. The group views a jovial video on the topic, and then they create a chart of prefix and suffix meanings to identify the meanings of words in a social...
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Curated OER

Roots and Affixes

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Fourth and fifth graders review how words can have several parts, including; roots, prefixes, and suffixes. Pupils receive a word building tiles worksheet, embedded in the plan, and they record selected roots, prefixes, and suffixes in...
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Curriculum Corner

Root Words

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
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...
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Prefix, Suffix, and Root Word Worksheets

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Words are kind of like a train, with affixes as the added cars. Practice prefixes, suffixes, and root words with these worksheets. Learners add words on to the beginning and end of words, practice with some roots, and use the words in...
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Franklin D. Roosevelt

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Discuss the life of Franklin D. Roosevelt. This story, called "Franklin D. Roosevelt" by Laura Hamilton Waxman, is used to explore comprehension skills. Some of these skills include identifying prefixes and suffixes, making comparisons,...
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Creatasaurus

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Upper elementary children still are intrigued by dinosaurs. Here is a dinosaur instructional activity that is geared toward their age group! The learners consider a list of prefixes and suffixes. Using the list, they can analyze the...
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Suffixes

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
Add additional meanings to root words! Scholars show what they know about suffixes and root words with a activity that challenges them to create words and complete sentences. 
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Curated OER

Dinosaur Name Parts and Their Meanings

For Students 4th - 6th
In this dinosaur vocabulary instructional activity, students analyze the meanings of 52 different dinosaur names by learning the meanings of prefix and suffixes.
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Curated OER

English Skills Worksheet 6.200

For Students 4th - 6th
There are six word exercises provided here, although they're not necessarily linked together. The first short practice asks learners to give compound words that use the list of words provided. The second asks learners to identify...
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Curated OER

School-Home Links: Root Words and Suffixes

For Students 3rd - 4th
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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Curated OER

Determine the Meaning of a Word Using Knowledge of Base Words and Affixes

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
Affixes can change the entire meaning of a word! Pupils practice with three prefixes and three suffixes in this scaffolded word meaning resource. There are affix cards here you can display in a pocket chart as you review. Learners first...

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