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Root Words Worksheet
Explore the parts of words! Fourth and fifth graders study root words with this activity. They combine words with a given prefix and root word, like combat. There are 13 words to combine!
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Root Words Activity
A study of prefixes and root words can help your learners with their word choice in writing. Participants review the meaning of 13 prefixes before adding them to root words and defining the new words.
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Prefix, Suffix, and Root Word Worksheets
Words are kind of like a train, with affixes as the added cars. Practice prefixes, suffixes, and root words with these worksheets. Learners add words on to the beginning and end of words, practice with some roots, and use the words in...
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Root Words
Ten pages offer useful information and five activities designed to reinforce the concept of root words. Scholars make a root word booklet, partake in a matching activity that challenges them to match root words to their...
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Using a Dictionary: Root Words
A dictionary is a very helpful tool. Teach your third graders how to locate words, define them, and understand what root words are. They look up 12 words, write their definitions, then determine the root word that helps categorize each...
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Word Roots Lesson #10 - Focus: miso
What does miso mean? Teach your class all about this root word with this quick practice sheet. After studying the chart provided, pupils learn new words that use the root and complete two short activities.
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Taking Away the Prefix to Find the Root Word
Get to the root of things with a prefix and root word learning exercise! The learning exercise's challenge is to read a list of words, identify the prefixes, and separate them from the root word.
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Prefixes and Root Words
In this root words and prefix usage instructional activity, students view a list of root words and columns of the prefixes non-, im, ir, il, in, and mis using the prefixes to generate new words, especially antonyms. Students write 15...
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Prefixes
Provide an opportunity for scholars to play around with words. They start with 12 root words and add prefixes to them to create new ones. There are five prefixes here, and learners list the new words beside each. Consider reviewing the...
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Word Roots Lesson #1 - Focus: chrom
What does the root word chrom mean? Review the root and the different prefixes and suffixes that can be added to it to enhance its meaning. Then, get your class using the new words with two short exercises. A brief introduction to the...
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Word Roots Lesson #8: auto
Knowing root words can expand our vocabulary dramatically. Use this worksheet to discuss auto and words in which it commonly appears. Two short exercises are provided here. In the first, learners match words containing the target root...
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Word Formation Worksheet 7
In this ESL word formation worksheet, students read 7 sentences that have a missing word. Students fill the space using the base word given in bold at the end. Prefixes and suffixes may be added.
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Investigation 2: hat is the Root Word?
In this identifying the base words worksheet, learners read two columns of words and write their root words, use a dictionary to find new words that use the root words from the word list, and read common prefixes and create new words...
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Skill Lessons – Prefixes and Suffixes
Sometimes the best way to understand a concept is to break it down. Young vocabulary pupils work with word parts in a hands-on activity that prompts them to connect flash cards with affixes to their root and base words....
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Bingo Lingo
Word roots can be great fun when part of a game! Practice a variety of different roots with this nicely put-together bingo game that comes with plenty of instructional ideas.
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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...
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Base Words and Their Meanings
In this matching words to base word meanings worksheet, students draw lines to connect the base words with their words with prefixes or suffixes clues. Students identify 12 matches.
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Root Word Practice #1
In this root word practice learning exercise, students match 25 prefixes and roots to their meanings. Students place the numbers in the magic squares, and when all the answers are correct all of the columns and rows will add up to the...
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How New Words Are Created
How are new words created? Study the list of ways a word can be created, and then have your class attempt to define a list of words. Word examples include snail-mail, coffee-matic, teleshopping, etc. More words and their definitions are...
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Word Roots Lesson #9 - Focus: eu, onym
What does eu mean? What about onym? Study these roots with your class by providing them with a worksheet. A graphic organizer and two short exercises are included. Learners explore words like eugenic, eunomy, and antonym, discovering...
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School-Home Links: Root Words and Suffixes
In this spelling new words worksheet, students learn to figure out the meaning of a new word by learning the root word and suffix. Students put the root words and suffixes together to make new words and write those words on the line....
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Suffixes
Add additional meanings to root words! Scholars show what they know about suffixes and root words with a activity that challenges them to create words and complete sentences.
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Match the prefixes
In this prefixes activity, students match the base words with their appropriate prefixes. Students complete 5 matches total.
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Match prefixes/suffixes
Second graders match the base word in column 1 with a prefix or suffix from column 2 to make a new word. They make five words.