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Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: Real Practice With Root Words

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Reading Topics a to Z: Root Words, Roots, and Affixes

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Common Content Area Roots and Affixes

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Prefixes

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on prefixes; it defines prefix, and discusses the purpose of prefixes and how they can change the base word. It also provides a list of common prefixes with their meanings.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Prefixes, Suffixes, and Roots Putting the Pieces Together

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Putting word parts together, students understand and acquire new vocabulary to use in reading and writing. This flipchart uses several self-checking techniques that will engage students to build and...
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Building a Better Vocabulary

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is an index of vocabulary-building information and quizzes, including a list of roots, prefixes, and suffixes with their meanings. It offers 365 SAT and GRE level vocabulary words, definitions, and sample sentences. The quizzes...
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TES Global

Blendspace: Roots & Affixes

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
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.
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Building a Better Vocabulary

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A wonderful site for the vocabulary enthusiast. Includes ways to build your vocabulary, resource suggestions, information about word roots, a section on suffixes and prefixes, as well as some higher-level word quizzes.
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Quia

Quia: Root/base Words

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
In this learning game, students match words with their correct root word.
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SMART Technologies

Smart: Exploring Prefixes and Suffixes

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
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...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Flip a Chip: Examining Affixes and Roots to Build Vocabulary

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Contains plans for a vocabulary lesson 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 lesson as well as assessment and...
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Other

Vocabulary Workshop

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This vocabulary workshop will be helpful to anyone interested in brushing up on their skills. This site features a comprehensive look at root words, prefixes, suffixes and more.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Common Roots and Their Meanings

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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
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Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: Grade 5 Elementary Root Words

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
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.
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Wisc-Online

Wisc Online: Practice With Suffixes (Nouns)

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Interactively increase students understanding and use of vocabulary with an activity that highlights the concepts of suffixes and base words.
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Education.com

Education.com: Finding Root Words

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Help your students review root words so they can analyze unfamiliar words and figure out the meaning without using a dictionary. In this worksheet, students will identify the root of each word...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Affixes 4

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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;...
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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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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Prefix and Suffix Flip Book

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
The student will blend base words and affixes to make words.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Morpheme Structures: Affix Fit

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
A lesson plan in which students match word cards with appropriate prefixes and suffixes. Materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Morpheme Structures: Affix Hunt

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students identify prefixes and suffixes on word cards. Materials are included.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Greek and Latin Affixes (English Iii Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[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...
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Vocabulary.com

Latin Root "Sub" Words

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Take Their Word for It!

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
Students learn how scientific terms are formed using Latin and Greek roots, prefixes and suffixes, and on that basis, learn to make an educated guess about the meaning of a word. Students are introduced to the role played by metaphor in...

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