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E.    Use knowledge of roots and affixes to determine the meanings of complex words.

 

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Word Roots from EdHelper
http://www.edhelper.com/Word_Roots.htm
This web site has over 20 printable worksheets and puzzles that cover word roots, prefixes, and suffixes, including Greek and Latin examples.

Rooting out Words - Funbrain
http://www.funbrain.com/roots/index.html
This web site is an interactive game dealing with root words, prefixes, and suffixes. You can pick several levels of difficulty and different subject matter.

Bingo Lingo game
http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonrepro/reproducibles/profbooks/bingolingo.pdf
This is a printable document (in PDF form) with directions, game boards, and game cards for Bingo Lingo. To play the game players match words on their bingo cards with word roots drawn at random. The winner is the first player to get three words in a row, column, or diagonal.

Root Words from Skillwise
http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/spelling/wordbuilding/rootwords/index.shtml
At this web site you work with root words in three sections. First, you can read two factsheets to learn about root words. Second, you can take three online quizzes over what you learned. Third, you can do a printable worksheet on the material.

Roots and their Families - Part 1
http://www.tv411.org/lessons/cfm/vocabulary.cfm?str=vocabulary&num=5&act=1
At this great interactive web site, students complete words in sentences by typing in the correct root, sort roots to complete sentences correctly, and answer questions about new words by using their roots as clues.

Word Parts (with Harry Potter words)
http://www.resourceroom.net/comprehension/wordparts/
At this web site students study Latin and Greek bases for words. For each base listed, an onsite worksheet provides its meaning, practice with the base, sample words and their meanings, and fill-in-the-blank sentences. Several of the bases relate to the Harry Potter books.

Suffixes from TV411
http://www.tv411.org/lessons/swfs/detect.cfm?str=vocabulary&num=10
In these online lessons, students choose definitions of words based on their suffixes and on context clues, make new words by adding a suffix to a root word, and use suffixes to complete words. Suffixes include -able, -ful, -less, -ly, -or, -er, -ment, and more.

Prefixes Say Plenty
http://www.tv411.org/lessons/swfs/detect.cfm?str=vocabulary&num=1
This web site has interactive exercises that help students understand the role of 10 prefixes, including pre-, post-, uni-, bi-, tri-, quad-, pro-, anti-, and more.


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