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.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Hyphens
This slideshow lesson focuses on the uses of hyphens; it explains what they are and the uses of hyphens including in the following: numbers, adjectives, prefixes, and to clarify meaning. It also provides examples of each use and...
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TOPS Learning Systems
Top Science: Decimal Bounce [Pdf]
An activity where students learn the meanings of metric prefixes, and how to use them with decimal numbers and with different units of measurement.
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...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Key Literacy Component: Morphology
Morphology describes how words are formed from building blocks called morphemes, the smallest unit of meaning in a word. Students who don't understand this structure have trouble recognizing, understanding, and spelling words. Find out...
Math2
Math2.org: Number Notation
At this website from Math2.org you will find tables with information about number words, meanings, and the symbols used to express them. At the very bottom there is also a Java Base Conversion Calculator.
Education.com
Education.com: Finding Root Words
[Free Registration/Login Required] Help your students review root words so they can analyze unfamiliar words and figure out the meaning without using a dictionary. In this worksheet, students will identify the root of each word...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Common Suffixes
[Free Registration/Login Required] To recognize and spell common suffixes and how these influence word meanings.
Education.com
Education.com: L.2.4.b Worksheets, Workbooks, Lesson Plans, and Games
[Free Registration/Login Required] Choose from a variety of lessons and worksheets that help students practice determining the meaning of the new word formed when a known prefix is added to a known word.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Macro for Micro?
If the prefix "macro" means large and "micro" means small, then why will the macro setting of a digital camera help take a better picture of a small object? Do this experiment and get the big picture.
Utah Education Network
Uen: It's Greek to Me!
This instructional activity engages students in vocabulary-building strategies related to Greek and Latin roots. Students will be given charts with Greek and Latin roots. Students will practice combining different roots to form...
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center
Wisconsin Rt I Center: Semantic Maps for Morphological Analysis [Pdf]
Classroom teachers will learn about semantic maps to break words into meaningful word parts, an engaging instructional strategy tool. Teachers will learn how to implement semantic maps, understand how to measure progress with semantic...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Morphemic Elements: Affix Action
A lesson plan in which students play a game by moving around the board by identifying suffixes. Materials are included.
Quia
Quia: Root/base Words
In this learning game, students match words with their correct root word.
Big Learners
Biglearners.com: ccss.ela literacy.l.2.4.c : Second Grade English Language Arts
Here is a collection of our common core aligned worksheets for core standard L.2.4.C. A brief description of the worksheets is on each of the worksheet widgets. Click on the images to view, download, or print them. All worksheets are...