Curated OER
Vowels, Reading Fluency
Third graders practice identifying words with the short o vowel sound. They use the strategy will reading a page from The Hare and the Tortoise. They read the passage while focusing on increasing their reading fluency and practice...
Curated OER
Word Maps Teaching Ideas
In this literacy worksheet, students are given a graphic organizer to complete or are presented it as part of the lesson developed from using this sheet.
Curated OER
Language Arts: Plotting Stories
Second graders read the story, "The Foolish, Timid Rabbit," as part of a unit on appearances. After reading with partners, they write their own stories that include elements about some forms of matter from their science studies. Students...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Animal Classification
Present information about the classification of animals. After participating in the teacher-led discussion about scientific names, small groups devise their own way of classifying everyday objects present in the classroom, developing...
Curated OER
Word is to Analogy as...
Middle schoolers complete verbal analogies by playing a group game.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Reading: Understand New Vocabulary Using Roots and Affixes
In this lesson, you will learn about two kinds of affixes - prefix and suffix. Prefixes are attached, before a root or base word, and suffixes to the end of a word. You'll learn how all three word parts are keys to unlocking the meanings...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Building a Better Vocabulary
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...
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...
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
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Understand New Vocabulary Using Roots and Affixes
This lesson focuses on learning new vocabulary by using prefixes, suffixes, and roots. It includes a brief history of affixes and learning exercises.
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...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Improve Comprehension: A Word Game Using Root Words and Affixes
Contains plans for three lessons that teach about root words, prefixes, and suffixes using handouts, websites, and games. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as...
Vocabulary.com
Around and Around: Circum
This site contains a list of 10 words that contains "circum-" as a prefix in them. Teachers can digitally assign this list to their students to reinforce the spellings, pronunciations, and meanings of these words.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Flip a Chip: Examining Affixes and Roots to Build Vocabulary
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...
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.
Read Works
Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 2nd Grade Unit: Prefixes
[Free Registration/Login Required] A instructional activity in which students learn to use the meanings of prefixes to help determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. Lesson includes directions for direct teaching, guided practice, and...
Vocabulary.com
Vocabulary.com: All You Need Is Love: Amor and Phil
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...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Building a Better Vocabulary
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.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Prefixes, Suffixes, and Roots Putting the Pieces Together
[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...
Wisc-Online
Wisc Online: Practice With Suffixes (Nouns)
Interactively increase students understanding and use of vocabulary with an activity that highlights the concepts of suffixes and base words.
Vocabulary.com
It Takes Two: Bi
This site contains a list of 10 words that contain the bi- prefix. Teachers can digitally assign this list to their students to reinforce the spellings, pronunciations, and meanings of these words.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Rhetorical Reading: Read Strategically: Diversify Your Vocabulary
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.
Quia
Quia: Suffixes: Rags to Riches
Increase student's understanding of suffixes with this interactive game. Students' demonstrate understanding of word endings by selecting correct definitions of each suffix.