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Use this word ladder to help your students use roots, prefixes, and suffixes to build words.

Prefixes, Suffixes and Roots Word Ladder

Help your students determine the meaning of new and unfamiliar words using roots, prefixes, and suffixes. The skills learned in this lesson will strengthen your students’ vocabulary skills and will support decoding and spelling.

Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes

Students will be able to understand words without a dictionary after they work through this exercise teaching how to determine the meaning of words using roots, prefixes, and suffixes.


Determine Meaning Using Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes

This book is about family, big or small! Use it to help kids jot down notes about where their first name came from, where family has been and learn to ask questions in an interview.

Tracing Your Roots: Genealogy

Help your students practice using root words, prefixes, and suffixes to change words and to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words.

Practice Using Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes

Learners will test their word knowledge strength in this carnival-themed worksheet.

Word Smash! Prefixes, Roots, and Suffixes

Can your students associate similar adjectives and nouns using the roots and suffixes? In this lesson, students will learn how to associate nouns with adjectives. Along the way, they will use the roots and affixes to determine the meaning.

Associating Adjectives

If your students need practice identifying the roots and affixes of a word to decode the meaning, then this worksheet is for you!

Look Inside!

Explore the meaning of Latin roots like &quot;scribe&quot; and &quot;spect&quot; with this matching activity! Build essential vocabulary skills with this simple one-page worksheet.

Latin Root Words #1

Help your students become word wizards! In this creative and engaging lesson, students will review roots, prefixes, and suffixes before creating their own words and definitions.

Word Wizards

Give your readers the tools to decipher the meaning of Greek and Latin based words. In this lesson they review the meaning of commonly used prefixes, suffixes and roots and then practice constructing and deciphering words.

Using Word Parts to Determine the Meaning of Words

Sometimes looking inside a word can help determine the meaning just like using context clues! In this lesson, students will learn to use roots and affixes as clues to the meaning of a word.

Tools for Tackling Words

This lesson helps students identify even and odd numbers, which sets the foundation for learning about division, prime numbers, and even square roots. Use this hands on lesson alongside Odd One Out!

Comparing Even and Odd Groups

Teaching your students about root words is a great way to strengthen their vocabulary and comprehension. Use this lesson to introduce the root words *tele* and *sign.*

Root Words: "Tele" and "Sign"

Looking at prefixes, suffixes, and root words can help readers find meaning. Even young readers can start to build their vocabulary from prefixes and suffixes. In this activity, students will create words by combining prefixes, suffixes, and root words.

Prefix, Suffix, Make Sense of It!

Teaching root words is a great way to strengthen your students' vocabulary and comprehension. Use this lesson to introduce the root words PORT and STRUCT.

Root Words: PORT & STRUCT

Learners identify and define word parts in this fifth- and sixth-grade grammar worksheet.

Root Word, Suffix, and Prefix Review #1

This cut-and-paste, categorizing activity helps students review root words!

Root It Out: Word Sort

Celebrate Black History Month by learning about soul music and the history of African-Americans in pop music, all in this Hip-Hop Music worksheet!

History of Hip Hop Music

Assess students&rsquo; understanding of word parts and how they relate to word meaning with this grammar worksheet.

Root Word, Suffix, and Prefix Review #2

In this math puzzle, children must solve a variety of equations to find each of eight clues to find the integers that make up an eight-digit number.

Place Value Puzzle

Use this table as a tool for students to learn and use root words, prefixes, and suffixes.

Word Parts Table

This Frankenstein worksheet is great for teaching kids about classic literature near Halloween. Use this Frankenstein worksheet with your child this October.

All About Frankenstein

Understanding prefixes is crucial for learning the meaning of unfamiliar words and building vocabulary.  Use this resource to study the prefix pre-.

Prefix Study: Pre

Learn more about legendary comedian Groucho Marx in this nonfiction reading sheet from our Jewish-American Heroes series.

Groucho Marx Biography

Assess your students&rsquo; understanding of word parts and how they relate to word meaning.

Root Word, Suffix, and Prefix Review #3

Here's a fun activity to show your child how to use prefixes and root words to "root out" the meaning of a word!

Root Out the Meaning of Words

A caption reveals important information to a reader. Use this lesson with your students to teach them about plant structures and their functions, while they learn how to be a text feature author.

Plant Structures and their Functions

In this lesson, your students will use root words and patterns to explore new and unfamiliar words.

Root Word Detectives

Do your students need extra practice forming words with the suffixes *-er* and* -est* depending on the context? With an abundance of words to explore, your students will learn how to determine which suffix is best for each individual context.

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