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.
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Real Practice With Root Words
This article focuses on providing real practice with root words including defining root words, determining the prefixes and suffixes, understanding word families, and providing a worksheet with an answer key.
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.
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
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.
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Activities for Teaching Vocabulary
This article focuses on the importance of teaching vocabulary and how to teach it effectively. It lists concepts that need to be considered when preparing to teach vocabulary such as prior knowledge, dictionary use, context clues, and...
Vocabulary.com
Latin Root "Sub" Words
This site contains a list of 10 words that contain "sub", a prefix that means "under" or "below", in them. Teachers can digitally assign this list to their students to reinforce the spellings, pronunciations, and meanings of these words.
Free Reading
Free Reading
This free reading intervention site is geared toward students grade K-3, with literacy activities and lessons/ideas links. The site includes teaching tools and activities. See the link at the bottom to "About FreeReading" for a list of...
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,...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Instructor: Reading Clinic: Strategy Inventory
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...
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: Common Roots and Their Meanings
This slideshow lesson introduces common roots words (or base words) and their meanings. It explains that some can stand alone while others require prefixes or suffixes to form words. L.9-10.4b Patterns/word changes
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: 6th Grade Grammar
This article focuses on grammar generally taught in 6th grade including more complicated reading material; roots, prefixes, and suffixes; and subjective and objective pronouns.
Quizlet
Quizlet: List of Common Affixes and Meanings: Flashcards
This set of interactive flashcards focuses on affixes (prefixes and suffixes) and their definitions.
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Grade 5 Elementary Root Words
This article focuses on teaching root words to 5th graders. It includes an explanation of root words, prefixes and suffixes, and word families. It also provides a root words worksheet with answer key.
SUNY Empire State College
Empire State College: Hyphens
This site contains information regarding the correct use of the hyphen, along with examples. L.11-12.2a Hyphens
Road to Grammar
Road to Grammar: Grammar Quizzes
365 interactive quizzes on various grammar and writing skills. While answering questions on each topic, students are provided with notes about the topic and information needed in order to reach the correct answer.
Big Learners
Biglearners.com: ccss.ela literacy.l.2.4.c : Second Grade English Language Arts
Here is a collection of our common core aligned worksheets for core standard L.2.4.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...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Vocabulary Tip: Build Associations
This screencast discusses how building associations between words increases vocabulary. It provides several examples on building successful associations using roots, parts of speech, prefixes and suffixes, and synonyms. Real Player is...
English Plus+
Grammar Slammer: Hyphens Rules for Use
This site from Grammar Slammer offers links to each of the uses for hyphens where correct and incorrect examples are provided for each. L.11-12.2a Hyphens
Utah Education Network
Uen: It's Greek to Me!
This lesson engages learners in vocabulary-building strategies related to Greek and Latin roots. Students will be given charts with Greek and Latin roots. Learners will practice combining different roots to form present-day English words.
Hopelink
Hopelink: Reading Lesson Idea: Teaching Word Structure
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.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Weather Watchers
Young scholars are introduced to some essential meteorology concepts so they more fully understand the impact of meteorological activity on air pollution control and prevention. First, they develop an understanding of the magnitude and...
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