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Quia

Quia: Compound Words

For Students 1st - 5th Standards
This site offers three focusing on compound words: Flashcards, one side with base word, other side with a word to form compound: Matching, match pairs of words to form compound words; and Concentration, matching pairs of words to form...
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Courseware Solutions

Wordville: Compound Words

For Students 1st - 5th Standards
This interactive language arts skill-building site provides a fun activity for creating compound words. Challenge student understanding of compound words and engage in the creation of compound words.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Compound Words

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart allows for students to practice making compound words independently. They combine words from a list to make compound words that match the given pictures. This is a great activity for...
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Courseware Solutions

Got Kids Games: Prefixes, Suffixes, Abbreviations, Compounds

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Students play this Jeopardy-like game against the computer to answer three questions about prefixes, suffixes, abbreviations, and compound words.
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Article
Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: Games to Play With Children to Build Vocabulary

For Teachers 1st - 8th Standards
This article offers insight on how children best learn vocabulary while having fun and using a variety of both audio and visual stimulation, as well as tactile components. It offers four sample games: Prefix/Suffix Game, Vocabulary...
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Fun Brain

Fun Brain: Rooting Out Words

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Three categories of words and four skill levels challenge players to identify the roots for the names of months, for numbers and numerical terms, and for a range of other words based on commonly used roots.
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Interactive
Quizlet

Quizlet: List of Common Affixes and Meanings: Flashcards

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
This set of interactive flashcards focuses on affixes (prefixes and suffixes) and their definitions.
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Activity
History is Fun

Jan Brett: Compound Words

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
This short online exercise challenges students to select the correct compound word.
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Interactive
Room Recess

Room Recess: Prefix Popper

For Students 1st - 5th Standards
Pop the balloons that contain the correct prefix.
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Other

K12 Reader: Shades of Meaning Card Set [Pdf]

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
Six sets of three words with similar definitions but varying shades of meaning. Students cut out the words and place them in order of weakest to strongest.
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Activity
Education.com

Education.com: Finding Root Words

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[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...
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Whiteboard
SMART Technologies

Smart: Exploring Prefixes and Suffixes

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
In this activity provided by SMART, students will learn the differences between prefixes and suffixes, as well as identify several different words and use them in sentences to help solidify which types of words represent prefixes and...
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College Claparede (Switzerland)

English Exercises Online: Using Prefixes to Make More Antonyms

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Solve this crossword puzzle by using prefixes to create antonyms of the words given in each clue. Hints are available if needed, and answers can be checked when the puzzle is finished.