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Vocabulary Morphemic Elements: Affix Game ActivityVocabulary Morphemic Elements: Affix Game Activity
Publisher
Florida Center for Reading Research
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Grade
4th - 5th
Subjects
English Language Arts
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Year
2007
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Vocabulary Morphemic Elements: Affix Game

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How well do you know your affixes? Find out how proficient your learners are with a game that requires them to define various affixes and use them to create words that will go into sentences.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

affixes, prefixes, suffixes, word parts, word meanings

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Create several sets of this game that you can pull out when some group practice is necessary
  • Play one game as a class to start to scaffold the process

Classroom Considerations

  • While similar to another resource by this publisher (also an affix game), this particular version takes the complexity a bit farther and requires learners to define the affix and come up with a sentence using a word that includes that affix
  • The final step is a peer evaluation, but steps for this activity are not included

Pros

  • It comes with a game board (one blank and one filled out), work pages for students to write on, and a die to cut out and paste together
  • Requires game players to demonstrate understanding of affixes while still keeping the idea that they are playing

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RF.2.3.b RF.3.3.a L.2.4.b L.2.4.c L.3.4.c

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