Teaching prefixes and suffixes

Teaching prefixes and suffixes in isolation is a thing of the past! Teach your students so they learn the words in context.

A three-part teaching strategy for incorporating Greek and Latin roots,

Activities and Ideas for Teaching Prefixes - includes free printables

Engaging prefixes and suffixes activities for 4th and 5th grade students including videos, books, and lesson ideas.

Familiarity with Greek and Latin roots, as well as prefixes and suffixes, help students to understand the meaning of new words and increase their vocabulary. This guide to teaching (affixes- prefix, suffix and root words) contains all you need for effective and engaging lessons that will teach, reinforce, and review prefixes and suffixes with your 4th, 5th, 6th grade or middle school students using Universal Design for Learning as a framework.

Are you looking for some activities for teaching suffixes? Check out these free materials including activities for Google Slides, videos, anchor charts,

This post is packed with FREE upper elementary resources for teaching prefixes and suffixes along with Greek or Latin roots and root words.

All the prefixes and suffixes worksheets you need: an evidence-based way to teach morphology of words and improve semantics in speech therapy

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Teaching the meanings of prefixes and suffixes is undoubtedly a skill that needs to be scaffolded over multiple grade levels. When I taught second grade, my main goal was to teach students how a prefix or a suffix affected the meaning of a word. We started with five basic prefixes and six basic suffixes. (Check out this affix blog post at my personal blog if you want to view my anchor chart, or read about my favorite way to introduce prefixes and suffixes to younger students.) Then, with…