ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Common Content Area Roots and Affixes
This table offers 50 or so common roots, prefixes, and suffixes, their definitions, and sample words in the content areas. L.9-10.4b Patterns/word changes
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Prefix and Suffix Flip Book
The student will blend base words and affixes to make words.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Reading Topics a to Z: Root Words, Roots, and Affixes
An introduction to using word parts to improve vocabulary skills. Includes charts of common Greek and Latin roots as well as common prefixes and suffixes and their meanings. Each of the four charts can be downloaded.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Root Words, Roots and Affixes
Familiarity with Greek and Latin roots, as well as prefixes and suffixes, can help students understand the meaning of new words. This article includes many of the most common examples.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Prefixes and Suffixes
This tutorial focuses on prefixes and suffixes using a slideshow and two videos. The first video discusses affixes including prefixes and suffixes and how they work; it also has an embedded YouTube music video about the power of...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Morpheme Structures: Affix Hunt
A lesson plan in which young scholars identify prefixes and suffixes on word cards. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Morpheme Structures: Affix Fit
A lesson plan in which learners match word cards with appropriate prefixes and suffixes. Materials are included.
SMART Technologies
Smart: Exploring Prefixes and Suffixes
In this activity provided by SMART, students will learn the differences between prefixes and suffixes, as well as identify several different words and use them in sentences to help solidify which types of words represent prefixes and...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Greek and Latin Affixes (English Iii Reading)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson. You will be introduced to a number of common affixes and roots; play games to practice matching affixes to their meanings; read a passage and use your...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Overview of Affixes With Unchanging Base Words
This resource has three sections: Overview of Affixes with Unchanging Base Words, video demonstration, and teaching tips. It provides downloads of the following: lesson plan, lesson materials, word list, and video transcript.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Flip a Chip: Examining Affixes and Roots to Build Vocabulary
Contains plans for a vocabulary activity that uses an activity called Flip-a-Chip to teach about affixes. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the activity as well as assessment...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Affixes
This slideshow lesson focuses on affixes; prefixes, suffixes, and the uncommon affixes, interfix and duplifix. It defines prefix and suffix and gives examples, provides a list of common prefixes and suffixes, and then defines and gives...
Quizlet
Quizlet: List of Common Affixes and Meanings: Flashcards
This set of interactive flashcards focuses on affixes (prefixes and suffixes) and their definitions.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Morphemic Elements: Affix Match
A lesson plan in which students play a memory match game by matching affixes and their meanings. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Morpheme Structures: Affix Sort [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students sort words according to whether they have a prefix, a suffix, both, or neither. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Morphemic Elements: Meaningful Affixes
A lesson plan in which young scholars add affixes to alter the meaning of words. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Morphemic Elements: Affix Concentration
A lesson plan in which young scholars play a memory game by matching affixes with their meanings. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Word Parts: Affix Wiz [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students practice reading a list of affixes and then time each other to see how many affixes they can read in one minute. Students repeat to work towards increased speed and accuracy. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Morphemic Elements: Affix Game
A lesson plan in which students play a game by determining affixes and their meanings in order to move around the board. Materials are included.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Affixes: Lesson 1
This lesson introduces affixes, including suffixes and prefixes and lesser-known affixes. It is 1 of 5 in the series titled "Affixes."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Affixes
This lesson introduces affixes, including suffixes and prefixes and lesser known affixes.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Affixes 4
This slideshow lesson focuses on affixes. It defines the term; discusses prefixes including location, examples, and how they affect the root word; discusses suffixes including location, examples, and how they affect the part of speech;...
TES Global
Blendspace: Roots & Affixes
A learning module that includes fifteen links to images, videos, online games, websites, lists and more that teach prefixes, Greek and Latin rooms, and suffixes.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: L.3.4b: Determine the Meaning When a Known Affix Is Added
Links to 5 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard L.3.4b: Determine the meaning of the new word formed when a known affix is added to a known word (e.g., agreeable/disagreeable, comfortable/uncomfortable,...