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Lesson Plan
Vocabulary University

My vocabulary.com: Prefix Study: Ad #1

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
MyVocabulary.com offers 14 PREFIX puzzles with the grade level of each word marked to the right of the word beginning with a prefix. Use eight grade level words for each prefix. "AD" prefix words: Adequate - 7, Adhere - 8, Adjourned - 8,...
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Lesson Plan
Vocabulary University

My vocabulary.com: Prefix Study: En #1

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
MyVocabulary.com offers 14 PREFIX puzzles with the grade level of each word marked to the right of the word beginning with a prefix. Use eight grade level words for each prefix. "EN" prefix words: Enchantment - 5, Enclosure - 6, Endure -...
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Lesson Plan
Vocabulary University

My vocabulary.com: Prefix Study: Pro #1

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
MyVocabulary.com offers 14 PREFIX puzzles with the grade level of each word marked to the right of the word beginning with a prefix. Use eight grade level words for each prefix. "PRO" prefix words: Proclaim - 6, Prognosticate - HS,...
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Lesson Plan
Vocabulary University

My vocabulary.com: Prefix Study: 112 Prefix Words by Alpha

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
MyVocabulary.com offers 14 PREFIX puzzles with the grade level of each word marked to the right of the word beginning with a prefix. Use eight grade level words for each prefix, a total of 112 words. These prefix activities include: ab...
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Lesson Plan
Vocabulary University

My vocabulary.com: Prefix Study: 112 Prefix Words by Grade

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
MyVocabulary.com offers 14 PREFIX puzzles with the grade level (5-8) of each word marked to the right of the word beginning with a prefix. Use eight grade level words for each prefix, a total of 112 words. These prefix activities...
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Lesson Plan
Vocabulary University

My vocabulary.com: Suffix Study: Able #1

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
MyVocabulary.com includes these SUFFIXES as a part of your Root-A-Week program! Suffixes modify and extend meaning. Use 9 suffix puzzles at grade level for each of these 9 "important" suffixes. "-ABLE" words: Bearable, Expandable,...
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Lesson Plan
Vocabulary University

My vocabulary.com: Suffix Study: Arium #1

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
MyVocabulary.com includes these SUFFIXES as a part of your Root-A-Week program! Suffixes modify and extend meaning. Use 9 suffix puzzles at grade level for each of these 9 "important" suffixes. "-ARIUM" words: Aquarium, Auditorium,...
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Lesson Plan
Vocabulary University

My vocabulary.com: Suffix Study: 32 Suffix Words by Grade

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
MyVocabulary.com offers 8 SUFFIX puzzles with the grade level of each word marked to the right of the word ending with a suffix. Use eight grade level words for each suffix, a total of 32 words.These suffix activities include: able -ance...
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Graphic
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Common Content Area Roots and Affixes

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This table offers 50 or so common roots, prefixes, and suffixes, their definitions, and sample words in the content areas. L.9-10.4b Patterns/word changes
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Professional Doc
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Semantic Maps for Morphological Analysis [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
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...
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Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Key Literacy Component: Morphology

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
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...
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Interactive
Wisc-Online

Wisc Online: Practice With Prefixes #1

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This interactive activity offers a practice for using the prefixes post-, pre-, dis-, in-, and un- that keeps track of score.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: A New Letter for the Alphabet

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage discusses the history of the schwa sound. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for vocabulary...
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Website
Other

Focusing on Words

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This site has information that will enhance your English-vocabulary skills. Experience the wonder of words by focusing on the Latin and Greek elements used in English.
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Activity
Education Development Center

Tv411: Vocabulary: Roots and Their Families

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
There are three activities in this lesson: 1) read root words and definitions, and type root into the box to complete the sentence; 2) drag root into box to complete the sentence; and 3) determine meaning of new word based on meaning of...
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Lesson Plan
Education Development Center

Tune in to Learning: Prefixes Say Plenty

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Test what you know about prefixes. Feedback is given when you answer questions correctly or incorrectly.
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Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Key Literacy Component: Vocabulary

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
What's in a word? Mastery of oral and written vocabulary promotes comprehension and communication. Find out how proper instruction can help students who struggle with vocabulary.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Understand New Vocabulary Using Roots and Affixes

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
You will learn how to determine the meaning of grade-level academic English words derived from Latin, Greek, or other linguistic roots and affixes.
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Unit Plan
Vocabulary.com

Around and Around: Circum

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site contains a list of 10 words that contains "circum-" as a prefix in them. Teachers can digitally assign this list to their students to reinforce the spellings, pronunciations, and meanings of these words.
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Unit Plan
Vocabulary.com

It Takes Two: Bi

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site contains a list of 10 words that contain the bi- prefix. Teachers can digitally assign this list to their students to reinforce the spellings, pronunciations, and meanings of these words.
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Unit Plan
Vocabulary.com

Latin Root "Sub" Words

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site contains a list of 10 words that contain "sub", a prefix that means "under" or "below", in them. Teachers can digitally assign this list to their students to reinforce the spellings, pronunciations, and meanings of these words.
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Lesson Plan
Organization for Community Networks

Ofcn: Horrid Homonyms

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This site features a lesson plan for homonyms. Young scholars and teachers will benefit in their speech and writing skills after tackling this activity.
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Affixes 4

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson focuses on affixes. It defines the term; discusses prefixes including location, examples, and how they affect the root word; discusses suffixes including location, examples, and how they affect the part of speech;...
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Graphic
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Reading Topics a to Z: Root Words, Roots, and Affixes

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An introduction to using word parts to improve vocabulary skills. Includes charts of common Greek and Latin roots as well as common prefixes and suffixes and their meanings. Each of the four charts can be downloaded.