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Reinvigorate Your Vocabulary

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Eighth graders participate in a variety of activities to examine the meanings and roots of word derivatives and the meanings of words. Using context clues, they determine the meanings of words omitted from a passage and complete a prefix review sheet.

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prefixes, suffixes, word meanings

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8th
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English Language Arts
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