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Activity
Education Development Center

Tv411: Vocabulary: Roots and Their Families

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
There are three activities in this lesson: 1) read root words and definitions, and type root into the box to complete the sentence; 2) drag root into box to complete the sentence; and 3) determine meaning of new word based on meaning of...
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Lesson Plan
Education Development Center

Tune in to Learning: Prefixes Say Plenty

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Test what you know about prefixes. Feedback is given when you answer questions correctly or incorrectly.
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Unit Plan
Education Development Center

Tune in to Learning: Suffixes

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Interactive quizzes to help develop skill using suffixes in vocabulary. After a short introductory slide show, students are asked to identify the meaning of words in context that use similar suffixes. Next, students fill in the...
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Activity
Education Development Center

Tv411: Tune in to Learning: More Roots and Their Families

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Part 2 of a series of interactive exercises concerning word roots and vocabulary skills. Site initially explains vocabulary and word roots, then allows students to complete interactive exercises.
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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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Lesson Plan
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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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Morpheme Structures: Word Way [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
A lesson plan in which students identify unknown words within a text, identify their parts and syllables, and work to determine the meaning of each word. Materials are included.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Morpheme Structures: If the Clue Fits [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
A lesson plan in which students identify a word on a word pyramid based on clues about its syllables and phonemes. Materials are included.
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Interactive
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Morpheme Structures: Root Hoot [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
A lesson plan for a card game in which students match multi-syllable words according to their root words. Materials are included.
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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 students sort words according to whether they have a prefix, a suffix, both, or neither. Materials are included.
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Handout
Other

Rosemount Apple Valley Eagan Public Schools: Spelling Lesson 9 [Pdf]

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
A list of spelling words with -tion, -cian and-sion suffixes.
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Whiteboard
SMART Technologies

Smart: Prefix and Suffix Mix Up

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
In this activity provided by SMART, students will learn the meaning of common prefixes and suffixes, practice combining root words with prefixes and suffixes, and recognize changes in words after combining prefixes and suffixes.
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Article
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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Unit Plan
BBC

Bbc: Skillswise: Spelling: Prefixes and Suffixes

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Skillswise site focuses on prefixes and suffixes. Included are a video about why learning about these additions to root words is important, fact sheets and worksheets for instruction. The Skillswise sites from BBC are geared to...
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Unit Plan
Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: Suffix Ly

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
A brief tutorial about the use of the "ly" suffix and its effect on a word, followed by questions asking students to choose the appropriate "ly" word to complete sentences and to find the base word in four words with "ly" suffixes....
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Teachnology

Teachnology: Suffixes Able Versus Ible [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Practice suffix skills by completing each sentence with a word ending in -able or -ible.
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Interactive
Quia

Quia: Greek & Latin Roots Skills

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
In this matching game, students match Greek and Latin roots with their meanings.
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Other

Free Phonics Lessons: Lesson 60

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Word lists and practice activities for the suffixes "tion" and "sion."
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Interactive
Quia

Quia: Roots & Prefixes

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Tests knowledge of Greek and Latin roots and prefixes, using matching, concentration, and word search formats.
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Interactive
Quia

Quia: Root/base Words

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Three activities including a matching game, a concentration game, and a word search puzzle for students to use while learning and practicing the meanings of various root words.
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Interactive
Quia

Quia: Prefix Millionaire

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Based on the popular game show, this quiz tests knowledge of common prefixes in a multiple choice format.
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Interactive
Quia

Quia: Dear Mr. Henshaw: Root Words

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
A matching game where students match eight spelling words from Dear Mr. Henshaw with the root form of each word.
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Interactive
Quia

Quia: Suffixes: Rags to Riches

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Increase student's understanding of suffixes with this interactive game. Students' demonstrate understanding of word endings by selecting correct definitions of each suffix.
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Other

Mountain View Middle School: The Suffixes Able and Ible [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Rules, examples, word lists, and practice exercises designed to teach the proper use of -ible and -able suffixes.