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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Prefixes and Suffixes

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial begins with a YouTube video rapping about affixes including roots, prefixes, and suffixes. There are two slide shows including one about prefixes and one about suffixes; each includes definition, how it functions, and a...
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Greek and Latin Affixes (English Iii Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson. You will be introduced to a number of common affixes and roots; play games to practice matching affixes to their meanings; read a passage and use your...
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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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Professional Doc
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Overview of Affixes With Unchanging Base Words

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This resource has three sections: Overview of Affixes with Unchanging Base Words, video demonstration, and teaching tips. It provides downloads of the following: lesson plan, lesson materials, word list, and video transcript.
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BBC

Bbc: Skillswise: Suffixes [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
BBC Skillswise offers a worksheet on suffixes for teachers and students.
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Lesson Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Instructor: Reading Clinic: Strategy Inventory

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This lesson plan includes a group of activities that will teach students how to use vocabulary knowledge to help with comprehension of a text. Split into three activities, this lesson plan encourages students to use prior knowledge, word...
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Morpheme Structures: Affix Fit

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
A lesson plan in which learners match word cards with appropriate prefixes and suffixes. Materials are included.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Morphemic Elements: Affix Game

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
A lesson plan in which young scholars play a game by determining affixes and their meanings in order to move around the board. Materials are included.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Morphemic Elements: Make It Meaningful

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
A lesson plan in which students sort words based on the meanings of their affixes: before, one who, state or qualify of, and wrongly. Materials are included.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Morphemic Elements: Meaningful Affixes

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
A lesson plan in which students add affixes to alter the meaning of words. Materials are included.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Morphemic Elements: Affix Concentration

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
A lesson plan in which learners play a memory game by matching affixes with their meanings. Materials are included.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Morphemic Elements: Affix Action

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students play a game by moving around the board by identifying suffixes. Materials are included.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Morphemic Elements: Affix Match

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students play a memory match game by matching affixes and their meanings. Materials are included.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Morpheme Structures: Affix Hunt

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which young scholars identify prefixes and suffixes on word cards. Materials are included.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Word Parts: Affix Wiz [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
A lesson plan in which students practice reading a list of affixes and then time each other to see how many affixes they can read in one minute. Students repeat to work towards increased speed and accuracy. Materials are included.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Morpheme Structures: Affix Sort [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
A lesson plan in which students sort words according to whether they have a prefix, a suffix, both, or neither. Materials are included.
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SMART Technologies

Smart: Prefix and Suffix Mix Up

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
In this activity provided by SMART, students will learn the meaning of common prefixes and suffixes, practice combining root words with prefixes and suffixes, and recognize changes in words after combining prefixes and suffixes.
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Article
Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: Activities for Teaching Vocabulary

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This article focuses on the importance of teaching vocabulary and how to teach it effectively. It lists concepts that need to be considered when preparing to teach vocabulary such as prior knowledge, dictionary use, context clues, and...
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Article
Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: Real Practice With Root Words

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This article focuses on providing real practice with root words including defining root words, determining the prefixes and suffixes, understanding word families, and providing a worksheet with an answer key.
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Handout
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Suffixes: Ible vs. Able

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A constant dilemma: ible or able? Find out when to use which.
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Interactive
Quia

Quia: Roots & Prefixes

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Tests knowledge of Greek and Latin roots and prefixes, using matching, concentration, and word search formats.
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Interactive
Quia

Quia: Suffixes: Rags to Riches

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Increase student's understanding of suffixes with this interactive game. Students' demonstrate understanding of word endings by selecting correct definitions of each suffix.