Breaking down words into syllables has two benefits: it improves vocabulary and it improves understanding of a text. The third and final resource in a series of materials designed to be used with Nature: Friend or Foe offers extra...

Fifth graders will use a dictionary to complete 5 charts organizing words by their roots and affixes. This worksheet is 4 pages long, and is a great way to help students better understand how to glean the meaning of a word by knowing its...

Students summarize information. In this language arts lesson, students summarize information from a fictional text. Students read a folktale and summarize the story.

Pupils use the text "The Great Chase" to explore characters, views, and using words and phrases from the text. They write character profiles that describe the characters in the story. Students use key words and phrases from the story.

MyVocabulary.com offers 14 PREFIX puzzles with the grade level of each word marked to the right of the word beginning with a prefix. Use eight grade level words for each prefix. "DIS" prefix words: Discreet - 8, Disgrace - 6, Dismal - 6,...

MyVocabulary.com offers 14 PREFIX puzzles with the grade level of each word marked to the right of the word beginning with a prefix. Use eight grade level words for each prefix, a total of 112 words. These prefix activities include: ab...

MyVocabulary.com offers 14 PREFIX puzzles with the grade level (5-8) of each word marked to the right of the word beginning with a prefix. Use eight grade level words for each prefix, a total of 112 words. These prefix activities...

This page offers links to 112 vocabulary words from these 14 prefix word game puzzles (eight words for each prefix). Select the prefix; links are: AB - AD - BE - COM - DE - DIS - EN - EX - IN - PRE - PRO - RE - SUB - UN. Then select the...

This interactive activity offers a practice for using the prefixes post-, pre-, dis-, in-, and un- that keeps track of score.

[Free Registration/Login Required] To recognize and spell common prefixes, and how these influence word meaning (e.g. un, de, dis, re, pre).

Learn prefix skills by taking the quiz using "Matching, Concentration, Flashcards, or Word Search."