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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Understand New Vocabulary Using Roots and Affixes

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
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
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Understand New Vocabulary Using Roots and Affixes

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
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
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Understand New Vocabulary Using Roots and Affixes

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Determine the meaning of grade-level academic English words derived from Latin, Greek, or other linguistic roots and affixes.
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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.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Improve Comprehension: A Word Game Using Root Words and Affixes

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Contains plans for three lessons that teach about root words, prefixes, and suffixes using handouts, websites, and games. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as...
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Understand New Vocabulary Using Roots and Affixes

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
This lesson focuses on learning new vocabulary by using prefixes, suffixes, and roots. It includes a brief history of affixes and learning exercises.
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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
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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Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Root Words, Roots and Affixes

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Familiarity with Greek and Latin roots, as well as prefixes and suffixes, can help students understand the meaning of new words. This article includes many of the most common examples.
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Activity
Vocabulary University

My vocabulary.com: Root Word Lessons

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is an index of links to activities using root words. These activities are separated into 3 levels of difficulty. These interactive, vocabulary puzzles and activities use Latin and Greek "roots and cells" to help unlock word...
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: It's Greek to Me!

For Teachers 4th - 7th Standards
This instructional activity 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...
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Linguistic Roots and Affixes (English Ii Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will be able to recognize linguistic roots and affixes to use in determining the meaning of academic English word and in other content areas.
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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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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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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Flip a Chip: Examining Affixes and Roots to Build Vocabulary

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Contains plans for a vocabulary lesson that uses an activity called Flip-a-Chip to teach about affixes. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lesson as well as assessment and...
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Roots & Affixes

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
A learning module that includes fifteen links to images, videos, online games, websites, lists and more that teach prefixes, Greek and Latin rooms, and suffixes.
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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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Whiteboard
SMART Technologies

Smart: Prefixes, Suffixes, and Root Words

For Teachers 1st - 8th Standards
Create words using prefixes, suffixes, and root words. Group the words together as words are created and add them to the word bank. Add your own prefixes, suffixes, and root words to extend the activity.
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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 students 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: Morpheme Structures: Affix Fit

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
A lesson plan in which students 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: 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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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Applying Word Strategies: Multiple Choice Review: Practice 1

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Lessons on roots and affixes, denotation and connotation, context clues, origins and meanings of foreign words, cognates, and reference materials help determine word meanings. These lessons told you HOW to use these word discovery tools....
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Applying Word Study Strategies (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Apply previous lessons, (1) Linguistic Roots and Affixes, (2) Denotation and Connotation, (3) Origins and Meanings of Foreign Words, (4) Cognates, and (5) Reference Materials, to improve fluency and comprehension.
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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...