How to teach prefixes and suffixes

These five ways you can teach prefixes and suffixes will allow you to see evidence your students' understanding in their reading and writing.

Teach students to use suffixes to figure out the meaning of words with this engaging hands-on resource. This bundle includes a mini-lesson, poster, interactive notebook page, puzzles, board games, a dice activity, a flower craft, and a quick assessment. #HollieGriffithTeaching #Games #KidsActivities

Guess what we've been studying? Pretty much what it seems everyone else has been studying! As I finished my Greek Mythology unit with my 4th grade enrichment friends, we closed by studying Greek word parts. The picture above shows the standards we met and a quick view of the big letters. Take a look at the finished display below, and I'll explain just what we did. Ignore my pocketbook and mess on the table! After finishing reading various myths and completing projects related to them, we…

Help your 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students become better at decoding multisyllabic words with these prefix, suffix, and base word activities. Have upper elementary students break apart words, use prefix and suffix anchor charts, build new words, play games, go on a scavenger hunt, and more to improve their decoding skills.

Tips for Using Prefix and Suffix Posters in Upper Elementary - a blog post by Alyssa Teaches

Read about a prefixes and suffixes lesson idea to help your kids master them. Learning prefixes and suffixes only needs to take about 5 minutes or less a day! #prefixesandsuffixes #prefixesandsuffixeslesson #learningprefixesandsuffixes

prefix reference posters- easy to read. Perfect to display during your word studies! So many other great ideas for teaching prefixes in this post as well.

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Helping students learn to find the meaning of an unknown word is a valuable language skill. By teaching prefixes and suffixes as an integral part of your language curriculum, students can learn how to decipher word meaning. As students master prefixes and suffixes their reading comprehension, writing and spelling will improve. This blog post details a variety of teaching ideas and resources to help you teach these important concepts in your elementary classroom. #UpperElementary #ELA

Do you need parts of speech posters for your classroom? This post has several classroom décor resources to help teachers prepare an engaging learning environment.