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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Reading: Understand New Vocabulary Using Roots and Affixes

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
In this lesson, you will learn about two kinds of affixes - prefix and suffix. Prefixes are attached, before a root or base word, and suffixes to the end of a word. You'll learn how all three word parts are keys to unlocking the meanings...
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Vocabulary University

My vocabulary.com: Word Roots Lesson 2: Fin Sed Fer: Word Roots #2 Beginner

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This lesson plan features the Latin roots FIN = end; SED, SID, SESS = sit, be still; FER = bear, carry, yield, bring. Choose 1 of the 8 different word puzzle activities from the list below. Each word puzzle will have directions, a clue....
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Vocabulary University

My vocabulary.com: Word Roots Lesson 2: Fin Sed Fer: Word Roots #2 Intermediate

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This lesson plan features the Latin roots FIN = end; SED, SID, SESS = sit, be still; FER = bear, carry, yield, bring Choose 1 of the 8 different word puzzle activities from the list below. Each word puzzle will have directions, a clue...
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Vocabulary University

My vocabulary.com: Word Roots Lesson 2: Fin Sed Fer: Word Roots #2 Advanced

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan features the Latin roots FIN = end; SED, SID, SESS = sit, be still; FER = bear, carry, yield, bring. Choose 1 of the 8 different word puzzle activities from the list below. Each word puzzle will have directions, a clue...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Instructor: Reading Clinic: Strategy Inventory

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This lesson plan includes a group of activities that will teach students how to use vocabulary knowledge to help with comprehension of a text. Split into three activities, this lesson plan encourages students to use prior knowledge, word...
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Hopelink

Hopelink: Reading Lesson Idea: Teaching Word Structure

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Understanding word structure and being able to identify root or base words, prefixes and suffixes give your student valuable vocabulary-building skills. Click on the Prefixes and Suffixes handout.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Changing "Now" Words to "Then" Words

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
This interdisciplinary lesson teaches first graders to use the inflectional ending -ed to create past tense verbs from present tense verbs. As children learn to use the -ed pattern, they change familiar root words into longer words to...
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Other

Apartheid Museum: Understanding Apartheid

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is an extensive teaching and study unit on apartheid in South Africa, complete with teacher notes and assessment materials. It looks at the historical roots of apartheid until the release from prison of Nelson Mandela in 1990. It...
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Changing Words

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart will help students to understand that some words can be changed in particular ways and others cannot, e.g. changing verb endings, adding comparative endings, pluralization, and that these...
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Quia

Quia: Inflectional Endings (S, Ed, and Ing)

For Students K - 1st Standards
Decide which inflectional ending matches the verb in each sentence.
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Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: Suffix Ly

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
A brief tutorial about the use of the "ly" suffix and its effect on a word, followed by questions asking students to choose the appropriate "ly" word to complete sentences and to find the base word in four words with "ly" suffixes....
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BBC

Bbc: Skillswise: Suffixes [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
BBC Skillswise offers a worksheet on suffixes for teachers and students.
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George Washington University

40th Anniversary of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty

For Students 9th - 10th
Near the end of the protracted negotiations that produced the historic Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) 40 years ago, U.S. government officials warned that countries could legally reach "nuclear pregnancy" under the Treaty and then...
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Rock ’N Learn

Rock 'N Learn: Quick as a Wink: Ink

For Students K - 1st
This printable vowels worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will solve riddles with words that end in the -ink root. An answer key and lesson extension are included.
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Big Learners

Biglearners.com: ccss.ela literacy.l.1.4.c : First Grade English Language Arts

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Here is a collection of our common core aligned worksheets for core standard L.1.4.C. A brief description of the worksheets is on each of the worksheet widgets. Click on the images to view, download, or print them. All worksheets are...
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: Plains Pocket Gopher

For Students 4th - 8th
The Plains Pocket Gopher is a medium-size rodent with a disproportionately massive front end, including an impressive head and strong, curved claws. Its diet consists mostly of roots and tubers located by tunneling through loose soil....