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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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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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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.
Activity
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...
Whiteboard
SMART Technologies

Smart: Prefixes, Suffixes, and Root Words

For Teachers 1st - 8th Standards
Create words using prefixes, suffixes, and root words. Group the words together as words are created and add them to the word bank. Add your own prefixes, suffixes, and root words to extend the activity.
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Vocabulary Tip: Build Associations

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
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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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Utah Education Network

Uen: It's Greek to Me!

For Teachers 4th - 7th Standards
This lesson plan 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...
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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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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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Vocabulary.com

Vocabulary.com: All You Need Is Love: Amor and Phil

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site contains a list of 14 words that contain "amor" or "philos", word roots that mean "love", in them. Teachers can digitally assign this list to their students to reinforce and practice the spellings, pronunciations, and meanings...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Weather Watchers

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students 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...
Whiteboard
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...
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Word Analysis: Tutorial

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this slideshow tutorial, students will review the concept of word analysis. The decoding skills of analyzing morphemes, including looking at prefixes, suffixes, and roots are included.
Interactive
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.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Generating Word Suffixes

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will use their knowledge of suffixes to generate new words from root words, (e.g., proud/proudly)
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Taking the "Un" Out of "Unwritten"

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, students will use a the rap song about prefixes, suffixes and roots and the song "Unwritten" by Natasha Bedingfield. Students will be engaged as they are practice their understanding of prefixes, suffixes and roots. Then...
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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.
Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Morpheme Structures: Affix Sort [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
A lesson plan in which learners sort words according to whether they have a prefix, a suffix, both, or neither. Materials are included.
PPT
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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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Key Literacy Component: Morphology

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Morphology describes how words are formed from building blocks called morphemes, the smallest unit of meaning in a word. Students who don't understand this structure have trouble recognizing, understanding, and spelling words. Find out...
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Rhetorical Reading: Read Strategically: Diversify Your Vocabulary

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on strategies to diversify and retain new vocabularies such as reading a variety of types of writing and learning roots, suffixes, prefixes, and the etymology of words.
Activity
Big Learners

Biglearners.com: ccss.ela literacy.l.2.4.c : Second Grade English Language Arts

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
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...
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University of South Florida

Fcat Express: Contextual Clues

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Strategies to help students recognize the meaning of words through contextual clues provided by a standardized test preparation site intended for fourth grade. Includes strategies such as C(2)QU (See Two Cue You), PReP (Prereading Plan),...