Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk, University of Texas at Austin
Lesson 11 - Affixes with Unchanging Base Words
Adding an affix to a word sometimes changes its meaning, just like magic. Using 11th of 17 lessons in the Word Recognition and Fluency series, readers become vocabulary magicians, learning to form and decode words that contain common...
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Prefixes Aplenty
Introduce several new prefixes to your vocabulary lesson. After alphabetizing 19 prefixes, including pro-, geo-, and thermo, third graders use a dictionary to find one word that begins with each prefix. Extend the activity by having kids...
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Prefixes
Learners explore prefixes, and how they help us decipher unknown words. Decode and define the meaning of boldface words with prefixes used in context on a classroom chart. Writers complete a worksheet practicing the same skill.
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What are Prefixes and Suffixes?
Learners explore prefixes and suffixes. In this word analysis and technology lesson, students define and identify prefixes and suffixes as they participate in an interactive series of SMART Board activities.
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Vocabulary Building
A fabulous language arts lesson has readers focus on the vocabulary in the key words, expand and build new vocabulary, and practice three grammar concepts. They recognize key words as they relate to communicating at work. Pupils build...
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Spelling Lesson Plan
Review basic spelling rules with your elementary schoolers. Focus in on the spelling of words with a specific prefix. In this spelling lesson, learners use an interactive whiteboard lesson to learn prefixes such as de, sub, re, and pre....
Core Knowledge Foundation
Third Grade Skills Unit 10: Living in Colonial America
Over three weeks, third graders participate in lessons designed to boost spelling and grammar skills—adjectives, adverbs, and pronouns—and prefixes. Readings are themed to share stories about Colonial America.
Core Knowledge Foundation
Third Grade Skills Unit 9: The Age of Exploration
The Age of Exploration is the theme of a unit designed to boost third-grade ELA skills. Scholars practice spelling patterns, examine words with prefixes and suffixes, build sentences with linking words, and use comparative and...
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My Reading Words in My Social Studies Book?
Connect social studies and language arts using this resource. After studying root words, have learners locate five words from their social studies book that have a prefix, suffix, or root word. This puts a new twist on practicing basic...
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Meaning of Many Common Prefixes and Suffixes
Third graders examine words. For this vocabulary lesson, 3rd graders decipher unfamiliar words by finding and defining the root word. Students explore the changes that prefixes and suffixes make to root words.
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Introduce: The Prefixes un- and dis-
Young scholars study language. In this word-making lesson, students discover the meanings of the prefixes un- and dis-. They work in small groups to create a list of words using these prefixes. This lesson includes modifications for ELL...
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Prefixes: ir and il
In this prefixes practice instructional activity, students respond to 52 questions that require them to fill in the blanks, write original sentences, can complete a word search.
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Pendemonium: The Italian Job
Discover how to use prefixes and suffixes to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words. The group views a jovial video on the topic, and then they create a chart of prefix and suffix meanings to identify the meanings of words in a social...
K12 Reader
Geometric Shape Names
Combine math and language arts in the same lesson with a reading passage about number prefixes in geometric shapes. After reading several short paragraphs about the different prefixes used in shape names, kids answer five comprehension...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Off to Adventure!: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 1)
This packet, the third in the series of support materials for the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt thematic units titled "Off to Adventure!" contains exercises and drills designed for learners who need extra support with the concepts included...
Penguin Books
An Educator's Guide to Matilda
Chances are, you've got some precocious Matilda fans in your class! Use a thorough set of lesson plans to address Roald Dahl's classic novel about a bright girl who just wants to be understood. Vocabulary exercises, comprehension...
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Creatasaurus
Upper elementary children still are intrigued by dinosaurs. Here is a dinosaur lesson that is geared toward their age group! The learners consider a list of prefixes and suffixes. Using the list, they can analyze the names of their...
Core Knowledge Foundation
Third Grade Skills Unit 11: Introduction to Ecology
The concluding skills unit offers learning opportunities and reviews in preparation for assessments. Scholars participate in lessons that examine spelling patterns, prefixes, suffixes, pronouns, and adjectives, draft a letter, and listen...
Core Knowledge Foundation
Third Grade Skills Unit 3: How Does Your Body Work?
A skills unit combines ELA and science with lessons that explore the human body. Lessons begin with a reading, go into skills practice, and offer take-home materials. Skills practice includes listening to and discussing a read-aloud,...
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Introduce: The Prefix mis-
Students explore words. In this prefixes lesson plan, students discover the meaning of the prefix mis-. They work as a class to come up with various words that contain this prefix. This lesson plan includes modifications for advanced...
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Introduce: The Prefix pre-
Students study language. In this word making instructional activity, students discover the meaning of the prefix pre-. They work in small groups to create a list of words that use this prefix. This instructional activity includes...
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Introduce: The Prefixes in-, im-, il- and ir-
Young scholars identify words that have the prefixes in-, im-, il- and ir-. In this word recognition lesson, students define the word "prefix" and practice adding endings the prefixes to the words on the board. Young scholars write the...
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Introduce: The Prefix over-
Learners generate words with the prefix over-. In this word study lesson, students are introduced to the prefix and identify words that contain the prefix over-. Learners generate the meaning of the prefix and list various words that...
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Introduce: The Prefix re-
Young scholars brainstorm words that have the prefix re-. In this prefix lesson, students discuss the meaning of the word prefix, define the meaning of the prefix re- and list words with the prefix on the board, discussing the meaning of...
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