Affixes

IREAD: Suffixes & Prefixes

By Joanie Thornburg

​Suffixes

​A suffix is a word part added to the end of a base word that changes the meaning of the word.

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Examples: playful​

careless​

creation​

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What is a suffix?

• a word part added at the end of a base word

• a word part added at the beginning of a base word

• a word part added in the middle of a word

• a long word

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Find the word that has ONLY the suffix underlined:

• beautiful

• quickly

• careful

• hopeless

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Find the word that has ONLY the suffix underlined:

• preheat

• action

• fearless

• quicker

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Find the word that has ONLY the suffix underlined:

• uncover

• reversible

• safely

• disrespect

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Find the word that has ONLY the suffix underlined:

• remove

• disagree

• inflatable

• worker

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Find the word that has ONLY the suffix underlined:

• teacher

• reliable

• penniless

• softly

​Prefixes

​A prefix is a word part added to the beginning of a base word that changes the meaning of the word.

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Examples: rewind

preheat​

​misunderstood

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What is a prefix?

• a word part added at the end of a base word

• a word part added at the beginning of a base word

• a word part added in the middle of a word

• a long word

Multiple Choice

Find the word that has ONLY the prefix underlined:

• preschool

• rewind

• mistake

• bicycle

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Find the word that has ONLY the prefix underlined:

• reread

• misheard

• dishonest

• pretest

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Find the word that has ONLY the prefix underlined:

• impatient

• interstate

• pretrial

• remove

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Find the word that has ONLY the prefix underlined:

• biannual

• tricycle

• nonstarter

• submarine

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Find the word that has ONLY the prefix underlined:

• retest

• unicycle

• retry

• untie