Curated OER
Instant Spelling Activity: Unstressed Endings
Seventh graders practice their spelling skills. In this word patterns and analysis lesson, 7th graders examine the unstressed -er, -or, and -ar. Students listen to a mini lesson regarding the endings and then complete a worksheet....
Curated OER
Reading and Spelling Activity
In this Language Arts worksheet, learners read a short text and answer 8 questions. For example, students choose the correct spelling of the word excited.
Curated OER
Presenting..... Prefixes! Hold Down the Applause, Please!
Fifth graders read and consider a list of common prefixes and their meanings. They complete a worksheet which asks them to read and define a prefix in context. They switch and evaluate each other's papers.
Curated OER
Spelling: Onset and Rime
Second graders make words. In this onset/rime lesson, 2nd graders change the first sound of a word (the onset) to create a new word. This lesson also reinforces student knowledge of vowel sounds.
Curated OER
Ukiyo-e
Students investigate and examine ukiyo-e, or Japanese woodblock prints, from the Edo period (1615-1868) in Japan and use this gained knowledge to compare Japanese culture to American societal trends.
Curated OER
Downloading and Viewing Images from the Internet
Twelfth graders demonstrate that they can locate and download an image from a web page.
Curated OER
Vowels, Reading Fluency
Third graders practice identifying words with the short o vowel sound. They use the strategy will reading a page from The Hare and the Tortoise. They read the passage while focusing on increasing their reading fluency and practice...
Curated OER
School-Home Links: Root Words and Prefix
In this spelling new word learning exercise, students combine the prefix and root word of several new words and write the complete word on the line. Students then look in a newspaper or magazine and find three words with the prefix un-...
Curated OER
Mayflower and Speedwheel Trip to the New World
Fourth graders compare the voyage of the Speedwell versus the Mayflower. In this historical voyages lesson, 4th graders analyze the differences between the two voyages, learn about the conditions sailing aboard the Mayflower, and sing a...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Prefixes and Suffixes
This tutorial focuses on prefixes and suffixes; it defines prefix, suffix, and affix. It offers a YouTube music video rapping about prefixes, suffixes, and roots; it also provides lists of common prefixes and suffixes with their meanings...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Prefixes and Suffixes
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...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Overview of Adding Suffixes That Change Base Words' Final Y to I
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This resource has two sections: Adding Suffixes that Change Base Words' Final y to i, and video demonstration. It provides downloads of the following: lesson plans, lesson...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Overview of Adding Vowel Suffixes to Cvc and Silent E Base Words
This resource has two sections: Overview of Adding Vowel Suffixes to CVC and Silent e Base Words, and video demonstration. It provides downloads of the following: lesson plans, lesson materials, word list, and video transcript.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Overview of the Ed Suffix With Unchanging Base Words
This resource has three sections: Overview of the -ed Suffix with Unchanging Base Words, video demonstration, and teaching tips. It provides downloads of the following: lesson plan, lesson materials, word list, and video transcript.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Take Their Word for It!
Students learn how scientific terms are formed using Latin and Greek roots, prefixes and suffixes, and on that basis, learn to make an educated guess about the meaning of a word. Students are introduced to the role played by metaphor in...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Prefixes and Suffixes
This tutorial focuses on prefixes and suffixes using a slideshow and two videos. The first video discusses affixes including prefixes and suffixes and how they work; it also has an embedded YouTube music video about the power of...
Other
Fun English Games: Interactive Grammar Games: Prefix & Suffix Game
In this interactive game, students select either a prefix, or a suffix, or both to a word to make a new word. It uses common prefixes and suffixes such as pre, sub, re, un and ly, ful, less, er.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Morphemic Elements: Make It Meaningful
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.
English Club
English Club: Spelling Rules: Ible/ Able
A list of commonly used words with the -ible suffix followed by rules for using -ible and -able suffixes. It also provides a link for an -ible/-able quiz and links to other spelling rules.
Utah Education Network
Uen: It's Greek to Me!
This lesson plan engages students in vocabulary-building strategies related to Greek and Latin roots. Students will be given charts with Greek and Latin roots. Students will practice combining different roots to form present-day English...
Other
Spelling It Right: Spelling It Right: Adding a Suffix to Words Ending in Y
This is a reference page explaining the rules for adding a suffix to words ending in the letter Y.
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: Suffix Ly
A brief tutorial about the use of the "ly" suffix and its effect on a word, followed by questions asking students to choose the appropriate "ly" word to complete sentences and to find the base word in four words with "ly" suffixes....
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Affixes 4
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;...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Greek and Latin Affixes (English Iii Reading)
[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...