Prefix and Suffix 3rd Grade

Prefix and Suffix

A prefix is a group of letters that comes at the BEGINNING of a word and changes its meaning.

• Pre-: Before (examples: preorder, preview)

• Re-: To do again (examples: reuse, rebuild)

• Un-: To not be (examples: unlike, unable)

• Ex-: Out of or away from (examples: exhale, external)

• Dis-: not, opposite (examples: disrespect, disorder)

• Mis-: bad, wrong (examples: misplace, mistreat)

• Non-: not (examples: nonfiction, nonverbal)

Prefix

A suffix is a group of letters that comes at the END of a word and changes its meaning.

• -ly: turns a word into an ADVERB, a word that describes an action (examples: quietly, easily)

• -ful: to have a lot of something (examples: hateful, hopeful)

• -less: to have little or none of something (examples: painless, restless)

• -able: having the ability or quality of something (examples: comfortable, portable)

Multiple Choice

What is the root word in

cried?

• cried

• ed

• cry

Multiple Choice

What does the root word in playful mean?

• making something

• doing something for fun

• bored

Multiple Choice

Tom and Jerry disagreed on what TV show to watch. That means they-

• did not agree

• agreed again

• did agree

• stopped agreeing

Multiple Choice

What do you do if you reread a book?

• read it

• don't read it

• read it again

• read it for the first time

Suffix

Multiple Choice

What is the meaning of the suffix -ful

• can be done

• full of

• most

• more

Multiple Choice

What does the prefix pre- mean?

• before

• after

• lost

• under

Multiple Choice

A suffix goes at the _______ of a word.

• end

• beginning

• middle

• under

Multiple Choice

What does unhappy mean?

• full of happy

• happy again

• happy

• Not happy

Multiple Choice

The prefix re- means

• not

• again

• over

• funny