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Prefixes, suffixes and word parts — Take-Home — 3rd Grade Knows what un-, re-, pre-, dis-, -less, -ful and -tion do to a word's meaning. This one-page 3rd Grade take-home carries the two-minute check that tells you whether the skill is wobbly, then "Word Surgery" — 10 minutes with paper, scissors optional — plus what to say when it gets hard and how to…
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Prefixes, suffixes and word parts LITERACY · 3RD GRADE Name Date TAKE-HOME PRACTICE Reading · 3rd Grade 10 minutes WHAT THIS BUILDS Knows what un-, re-, pre-, dis-, -less, -ful and -tion do to a word's meaning. 1 THE TWO-MINUTE CHECK ASK "What does 'unhelpful' mean? Break it into three parts and tell me what each part does." A SOLID ANSWER un = not, help, ful = full of — and a correct overall meaning. Not yet Getting there Solid 2 WORD SURGERY You need: Paper, Scissors optional Write a word on a strip and cut off the prefix and suffix physically. Ask what's left in the middle — the root — and what it means alone. Build new words from the same root: help, helpful, helpless, unhelpful, helper. Make a silly word with real parts — "unbreakfastable" — and have them define it. Keep a running wall list of prefixes with their meanings. SAY THIS WHEN IT STALLS "Chop off the front and the end. What's the word in the middle? Now what did the front do to it?" One prefix a week, applied to five known words. Latin and Greek roots: port, dict, scrib, tele, graph. IF IT'S TOO HARD IF IT'S TOO EASY Did it M T W T F Full year of take-homes: www.littleactivity.com/takehome/grade-3 www.littleactivity.com 3rd Grade · Literacy
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Prefixes, suffixes and word parts LITERACY · 3RD GRADE Name Date TAKE-HOME PRACTICE Reading · 3rd Grade 10 minutes WHAT THIS BUILDS Knows what un-, re-, pre-, dis-, -less, -ful and -tion do to a word's meaning. 1 THE TWO-MINUTE CHECK ASK "What does 'unhelpful' mean? Break it into three parts and tell me what each part does." A SOLID ANSWER un = not, help, ful = full of — and a correct overall meaning. Not yet Getting there Solid 2 WORD SURGERY You need: Paper, Scissors optional Write a word on a strip and cut off the prefix and suffix physically. Ask what's left in the middle — the root — and what it means alone. Build new words from the same root: help, helpful, helpless, unhelpful, helper. Make a silly word with real parts — "unbreakfastable" — and have them define it. Keep a running wall list of prefixes with their meanings. SAY THIS WHEN IT STALLS "Chop off the front and the end. What's the word in the middle? Now what did the front do to it?" One prefix a week, applied to five known words. Latin and Greek roots: port, dict, scrib, tele, graph. IF IT'S TOO HARD IF IT'S TOO EASY Did it M T W T F Full year of take-homes: www.littleactivity.com/takehome/grade-3 www.littleactivity.com 3rd Grade · Literacy
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