Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Building a Better Vocabulary
This is an index of vocabulary-building information and quizzes, including a list of roots, prefixes, and suffixes with their meanings. It offers 365 SAT and GRE level vocabulary words, definitions, and sample sentences. The quizzes...
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...
SMART Technologies
Smart: Exploring Prefixes and Suffixes
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...
Quia
Quia: Suffixes: Rags to Riches
Increase student's understanding of suffixes with this interactive game. Students' demonstrate understanding of word endings by selecting correct definitions of each suffix.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Prefixes
[Free Registration/Login Required] A prefix is a group of letters that go in front of a word. Using a prefix changes the meaning of that word. This lesson will cover the following prefixes: super, sub, un, pre, uni, bi, tri.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Common Suffixes
[Free Registration/Login Required] To recognize and spell common suffixes and how these influence word meanings.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Common Prefixes
[Free Registration/Login Required] To recognize and spell common prefixes, and how these influence word meaning (e.g. un, de, dis, re, pre).
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Generating Word Suffixes
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will use their knowledge of suffixes to generate new words from root words, (e.g., proud/proudly)
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Reading: Understand New Vocabulary Using Roots and Affixes
In this lesson, you will learn about two kinds of affixes - prefix and suffix. Prefixes are attached, before a root or base word, and suffixes to the end of a word. You'll learn how all three word parts are keys to unlocking the meanings...
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Using Hyphens
Do you know when to use hyphens? Here's a resource that lists when to use hyphens in adjectives, in compound numbers, after prefixes, and in between line breaks with examples of each.
TES Global
Blendspace: Prefixes & Suffixes
An eleven-part learning module with links to texts, videos, images, and websites about prefixes and suffixes.
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Games to Play With Children to Build Vocabulary
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...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Building a Better Vocabulary
A wonderful site for the vocabulary enthusiast. Includes ways to build your vocabulary, resource suggestions, information about word roots, a section on suffixes and prefixes, as well as some higher-level word quizzes.
Other
Jump Start: Suffix Search [Pdf]
Students practice making words with -ed, -ing, and -er suffixes. [PDF]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Common Suffixes and Their Meanings
This lesson introduces common suffixes and their meanings.
English Club
English Club: Learn English: Vocabulary: Word Classes and Word Forms
Links to information on different word forms including verbs, nouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, interjections, prefixes, suffixes, contractions, and "wh" question words.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Prefixes and Suffixes
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart reviews the definition of prefixes and suffixes and includes an interactive activity using containers.
Quia
Quia: Roots & Prefixes
Tests knowledge of Greek and Latin roots and prefixes, using matching, concentration, and word search formats.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Improve Comprehension: A Word Game Using Root Words and Affixes
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...
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;...
Vocabulary.com
Around and Around: Circum
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.
Vocabulary.com
It Takes Two: Bi
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.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Morphemic Elements: Affix Action
A lesson plan in which students play a game by moving around the board by identifying suffixes. Materials are included.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Suffixes: Ible vs. Able
A constant dilemma: ible or able? Find out when to use which.
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