May 02
Are you looking for an engaging, ready-to-use resource to teach prefixes, suffixes, and root words? I’m thrilled to offer a free sample from my comprehensive Prefixes, Suffixes, and Roots Series! This sample includes three activities for four different affixes and root words—12 fun, educational activities designed for upper elementary and middle school students. Why I …
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Dec 07
By learning root words, students can better understand language. Learning just a few root words can increase word knowledge ten-fold. This post includes both free materials and ideas to make learning fun. Begin with this idea… Root words are often associated with trees. Make a root word tree by drawing a tree shape. Near the …
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Nov 30
Are you looking for some activities for teaching suffixes? Check out these free materials including activities for Google Slides, videos, anchor charts, and PowerPoints. Teaching students some common suffixes can increase their vocabulary tremendously. The suffixes -s/-es, -ed, -ing, -ly, -er/-or, -ion/-tion/-ation/-tion, and -ible/-able account for 72 percent of suffixed words. Teaching these 7 suffixes …
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Nov 08
English is a mix of several languages including French, Italian, Greek and Latin, Vietnamese and so on. This makes the number of words linguists estimate the English language to have extremely large…approximately one million words. About 170,000 of these words are in current use. The average adult English speaker has a vocabulary between 20,000 to …
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Nov 09
Check out these materials to enhance your unit including Peter Pan Skills. Peter Pan Skills including Prefixes, Suffixes, and Root Words While planning this Peter Pan unit, I searched the text for prefixes, suffixes, and root words that repeated. Here is a partial list of my finds. Prefixes forehead unforeseen forecastle forefinger interrupt interposed interlopers …
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Aug 13
Your students will enjoy practicing prefixes and suffixes using sentences from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Students know this well-loved story through the classic movie. This makes using sample sentences from the story ideal. Students can complete the activities even if they have not read the book. You will find four activities. The prefix and …
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Jul 23
Turning skill practice into a game is not only fun for students but will help them learn the skills so much more quickly. These prefix activities for con-/com-, uni-, and ex- use sentences from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz for practice. Learning how to use prefixes is a skill that is covered in each grade …
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