The ability to identify and define base words or roots, prefixes, and suffixes is essential to decoding unfamiliar words. This series provides students with opportunities to examine words and understand their meanings in order to improve vocabulary and fluency. The teacher-friendly lessons and practice activities engage students in the study of words, their meanings, and proper usage. Correlated to the Common Core State Standards.
The ability to identify and define base words or roots, prefixes, and suffixes is essential to decoding unfamiliar words. This series provides students with opportunities to examine words and understand their meanings in order to improve vocabulary and fluency. The teacher-friendly lessons and practice activities engage students in the study of words, their meanings, and proper usage. Correlated to the Common Core State Standards.
The ability to identify and define base words or roots, prefixes, and suffixes is essential to decoding unfamiliar words. This series provides students with opportunities to examine words and understand their meanings in order to improve vocabulary and fluency. The teacher-friendly lessons and practice activities engage students in the study of words, their meanings, and proper usage. Correlated to the Common Core State Standards.
The ability to identify and define base words or roots, prefixes, and suffixes is essential to decoding unfamiliar words. This series provides students with opportunities to examine words and understand their meanings in order to improve vocabulary and fluency. The teacher-friendly lessons and practice activities engage students in the study of words, their meanings, and proper usage. Correlated to the Common Core State Standards.
Word Roots and affixes, Book 2, is for students in grades 6 through 8. It is designed for kids to learn and apply the way root words, prefixes, and suffixes are used to create a living language. The goal is to ignite an interest in and fascination about words for students so they may decode unfamiliar words as they read and create new ones as they make language their own! The purpose and intent of teaching word parts and the ways words are put together is to give students another option for decoding and understanding unfamiliar words and for building new ones. By examining how and why prefixes and suffixes affect simple word roots and already complex words, students can more readily expand their vocabulary. All affixes or roots need not be learned at once; however, by learning to analyze, use and manipulate a number of basic components, students will develop a more efficient and effective set of tools to use when meeting unfamiliar words or inventing their own. This method and strategy will help to reduce the mass of vocabulary that students must learn as single, seemingly isolated words. Students will be able to analyze new words by using this knowledge and the context in which the word appears. How satisfying it will be for the student each time he or she can figure out the meaning of a word using these new skills! It is the puzzle solved.
The Teacher's Guide includes lesson plans with detailed notes about words from each root, overhead transparencies for introductory activities, standards-based connections, and differentiation strategies. A resource CD is also included with 50 bonus activities to support a variety of learning styles.
