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).
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...
Quia
Quia: Roots & Prefixes
Tests knowledge of Greek and Latin roots and prefixes, using matching, concentration, and word search formats.
Read Works
Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 2nd Grade Unit: Prefixes
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students learn to use the meanings of prefixes to help determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. Lesson includes directions for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: L.3.4b: Determine the Meaning When a Known Affix Is Added
Links to 5 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard L.3.4b: Determine the meaning of the new word formed when a known affix is added to a known word (e.g., agreeable/disagreeable, comfortable/uncomfortable,...
SMART Technologies
Smart: Prefixes, Suffixes, and Root Words
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.
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...
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.
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...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Reading Topics a to Z: Root Words, Roots, and Affixes
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.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Common Roots and Their Meanings
This slideshow lesson introduces common roots words (or base words) and their meanings. It explains that some can stand alone while others require prefixes or suffixes to form words. L.9-10.4b Patterns/word changes
Quizlet
Quizlet: List of Common Affixes and Meanings: Flashcards
This set of interactive flashcards focuses on affixes (prefixes and suffixes) and their definitions.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Morpheme Structures: Affix Hunt
A lesson plan in which students identify prefixes and suffixes on word cards. Materials are included.
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...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Morphemic Elements: Affix Match
A lesson plan in which students play a memory match game by matching affixes and their meanings. Materials are included.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Instructor: Reading Clinic: Strategy Inventory
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...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Morphemic Elements: Affix Game
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.
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.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Morphemic Elements: Meaningful Affixes
A lesson plan in which students add affixes to alter the meaning of words. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Morphemic Elements: Affix Concentration
A lesson plan in which students play a memory game by matching affixes with their meanings. Materials are included.
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.