Affix Review

What is an Affix?

• a letter or group of letters (as a prefix or suffix) that comes at the beginning or end of a word and has a meaning of its own.

• a letter or group of letters that goes at the beginning of a root word.

• a letter or group of letters that go at the end of a root word.

• the camel who rides through the desert.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

What is a root word?

• the part of a tree that is under the ground.

• my coffee in the morning.

• a standalone word that has no affixes attached to it.

• a word with the same or similar meaning as another word.

Tags

CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

What is a prefix?

• a word or group of letters that go at the end of a root word.

• a word or group of letters that go at the beginning and end of a root word.

• a word or group of letters that go at the beginning of a root word.

• chocolate cake

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

What is a suffix?

• a word or group of letters that go at the beginning of a root word.

• a word or group of letters that go at the end of a root word.

• a word or group of letters that go at the beginning and end of a root word.

• cheesecake

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

What is the root word in the following word?: careless

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CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

What is the prefix in the following word?: reread

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CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

What is the suffix in the following word?: lovable

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CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Root words in the English language are made up of mostly what type of words?

• Latin and Greek

• Spanish and French

• Greek and Hebrew

• Pig Latin and Gibberish

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CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

Happy is a positive feeling. What suffix would I need to add to the root word "happy" if I wanted to change its meaning to "the state of being happy"?

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CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Able means to be capable of doing something successfully. If I wanted to change the meaning of the root word able to "not capable of doing something successfully", what prefix would I add?

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CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A