National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition
Building Vocabulary: Prefixes, Roots, and Suffixes
Word roots, prefixes, and suffixes can hold the key to determining the meaning of a host of different words. Included here are five pages of prefixes, roots, and suffixes paired with their meanings and example words.
Lynette
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...
BBC
Walking with Dinosaurs
Breath new life into your class's study of dinosaurs with this extensive collection of materials. Offering everything from a printable T-rex mask, word searches, and connect-the-dots activities to informational handouts, hands-on...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Vocabulary: Morphemic Elements, Sentence Match
Ask your class to puzzle out the meaning of various affixes. Learners read sentences and develop a new word with an affix to replace the underlined words. They write down the words and help to categorize them by affix.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Vocabulary: Morphemic Elements, Build-A-Word
An affix plus a base word equals what? A new word! Invite your class members to discover words using affixes and base words. Learners then write sentences using the real words that they put together.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Vocabulary: Morphemic Elements: Affix Action
Make a game out of word parts. Pupils work in pairs to advance along the board. One partner reads a sentence from a card, and the other identifies the correct affix that fits with a word in that sentence.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Vocabulary: Morphemic Elements, Affix Match
Play a quick game of memory, but with a grammatical twist! Learners match the affixes to their meanings.
Curriculum Corner
Suffix Match
Knowing the meanings of common suffixes is a powerful tool for expanding the vocabulary of young learners. This set of word cards focuses on the suffixes -or, -ly, -ful, and -able, providing two words that include each suffix as well as...
Curated OER
The Common Core Literacy Standards - Grade 3 Posters
Brighten your third grade classroom with this series of colorful Common Core displays. Including all of the English Language Arts standards and substandards, each with supporting illustrations and examples, this resource provides clear...
PBS
Joseph Had a Little Overcoat: Flash Card Games
Expand the vocabulary of young readers with this series of five activities based the children's book Joseph Had a Little Overcoat by Simms Taback. From playing bingo to group storytelling, a variety of different approaches are presented...
Curriculum Corner
“I Can” Common Core! 3rd Grade Language
Support third graders with developing their language skills using this Common Core checklist. With each standard written as an I can statement, children are given clear learning goals to work toward throughout the year.
Curated OER
Because of Winn-Dixie
Readers analyze an excerpt from Kate DiCamillo's novel Because of Winn-Dixie. They read silently, and then hear it read aloud. Definitions for underlined vocabulary words are in the margin, and other potentially difficult words are in...
Perfection Learning
Prefixes, Suffixes, and Root Words/Base Words
Get your class on track with their affixes by covering prefixes, suffixes, and root words in depth. This short three-lesson unit includes vocabulary lists to study, detailed plan procedures, and some accompanying worksheets.
PB Works
“George Washington’s Socks”: Vocabulary Part 1
Supplement a class reading of George Washington's Socks with this list of vocabulary words. Including a mixture of verbs, nouns, adjectives, and adverbs, this resource asks young readers to record the page number and a synonym for each...
Curated OER
Determine the Meaning of a Word Using Knowledge of Base Words and Affixes
Affixes can change the entire meaning of a word! Pupils practice with three prefixes and three suffixes in this scaffolded word meaning resource. There are affix cards here you can display in a pocket chart as you review. Learners first...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Writing With Scientists
After students investigate a topic through research, hypothesizing, observing, and experimentating, teachers can use this lesson to help their students prepare short science reports and publish them online. The Writing with Scientists...
TES Global
Tes: 100 High Frequency Words (Hf Ws) Display/flashcards
[Free Registration/Login Required] One high flashcards with high frequency words are provided at this site.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Third Grade Writing Lesson #1/ Descriptive Prompt
Given a descriptive writing prompt, 3rd graders will include precise word choices and sensory language in a piece of writing about their favorite place.
Vocabulary Spelling City
Vocabulary Spelling City: Silly Bulls: 2nd 3rd Grade Syllables
Practice syllables with this online game. After the word is read, choose the correct box based on the number of syllables you hear. When you choose correctly, you will see the word broken down into syllables and hear it used in a sentence.
Other
Wisewire: Grade 3 Playlist: Clues to Unknown Words Using Known Roots
A dictionary is not the only way to figure out the meaning of new words. Readers also can look for familiar word parts. These word parts might appear in other words that readers already know. By looking for familiar word parts, including...
Michigan State University
Michigan State University: Intevention for Reading: Peer Tutoring in Sight Words
This is a lesson for peer tutoring of sight words including training, materials needed, procedures, and evaluation. The goal is to increase learners' sight word vocabulary and, therefore, their reading comprehension.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Picture Book Writing Lesson: Start With What Isn't There
In this lesson plan, learners will describe a setting, attempting to set a mood for their readers in two paragraphs. Borrowing a technique from Stephen Kramer's two-page introduction to Caves, they will begin with a paragraph that...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: What if Poems: Developing Imaginative Stanzas for an Original Poem
In this lesson students will develop a "what if" poem using strong word choice and vocabulary.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Poems to Bug Your Reader: Develop a Poem About Invertebrates
In this lesson students create a short poem utilizing the best word choice regarding an invertebrate.