Prefixes and suffixes 3rd grade worksheets: Prefix and Suffix Worksheets

This worksheet asks your student to form new words using prefixes.

Grade Levels:

2nd and 3rd Grade, Grades K-12

CCSS Code(s):

RF.3.3a

In this worksheet, students will use the Greek or Latin prefixes ad- and su- to create five different English words out of those given in the word bank. After writing five original sentences using the words these words, students will be asked to circle the word word made with the prefix. This is great practice for learning how to use and identify Greek and Latin prefixes!

Grade Levels:

4th and 5th Grade, 6th — 8th Grade, Grades K-12

CCSS Code(s):

L. 5.4.B, L.6.4.B

In this worksheet, students will use the Greek or Latin prefixes ante- and uni- to create five different English words out of those given in the word bank. After writing five original sentences using the words these words, students will be asked to circle the word word made with the prefix. This is great practice for learning how to use and identify Greek and Latin prefixes!

Grade Levels:

4th and 5th Grade, 6th — 8th Grade, Grades K-12

CCSS Code(s):

L.5.4.B, L.6.4.B

In this worksheet, students will use the Greek or Latin prefixes anti- and deci- to create five different English words out of those given in the word bank. After writing five original sentences using the words these words, students will be asked to circle the word word made with the prefix. This is great practice for learning how to use and identify Greek and Latin prefixes!

Grade Levels:

4th and 5th Grade, Grades K-12

CCSS Code(s):

L. 4.4.B, L.5.4.B

In this worksheet, students will use the Greek or Latin prefixes auto- and cent-/centi- to create five different English words out of those given in the word bank. After writing five original sentences using the words these words, students will be asked to circle the word made with the prefix. This is great practice for learning how to use and identify Greek and Latin prefixes!

Grade Levels:

4th and 5th Grade, Grades K-12

CCSS Code(s):

L.4.4.B, L.5.4.B

In this worksheet, students will use the Greek or Latin prefixes de- and bi- to create five different English words out of those given in the word bank. After writing five original sentences using the words these words, students will be asked to circle the word made with the prefix. This is great practice for learning how to use and identify Greek and Latin prefixes!

Grade Levels:

4th and 5th Grade, Grades K-12

CCSS Code(s):

L.4. 4.B, L.5.4.B

In this worksheet, students will use the Latin or Greek prefixes -du and re- to create five different English words out of those given in the word bank. After writing five original sentences using the words these words, students will be asked to circle the word made with the prefix. This is great practice for learning how to use and identify Greek and Latin prefixes!

Grade Levels:

4th and 5th Grade, Grades K-12

CCSS Code(s):

L.4.4.B, L.5.4.B

In this worksheet, students will use the Latin or Greek prefixes -en-/em- and poly- to create five different English words out of those given in the word bank. After writing five original sentences using the words these words, students will be asked to circle the word made with the prefix. This is great practice for learning how to use and identify Greek and Latin prefixes!

Grade Levels:

4th and 5th Grade, Grades K-12

CCSS Code(s):

L.4.4.B, L. 5.4.B

In this worksheet, students will use the Latin or Greek prefixes -inter and super- to create five different English words out of those given in the word bank. After writing five original sentences using the words these words, students will be asked to circle the word made with the prefix. This is great practice for learning how to use and identify Greek and Latin prefixes!

Grade Levels:

4th and 5th Grade, 6th — 8th Grade, Grades K-12

CCSS Code(s):

L.5.4.B, L.6.4.B

In this worksheet, students will use the Latin or Greek prefixes -micro and in-/im-/il-/ir- to create five different English words out of those given in the word bank. After writing five original sentences using the words these words, students will be asked to circle the word made with the prefix. This is great practice for learning how to use and identify Greek and Latin prefixes!

Grade Levels:

4th and 5th Grade, 6th — 8th Grade, Grades K-12

CCSS Code(s):

L. 5.4.B, L.6.4.B

In this worksheet, students will use the Latin or Greek prefixes -mis and tri- to create five different English words out of those given in the word bank. After writing five original sentences using the words these words, students will be asked to circle the word made with the prefix. This is great practice for learning how to use and identify Greek and Latin prefixes!

Grade Levels:

4th and 5th Grade, Grades K-12

CCSS Code(s):

L.4.4.B, L.5.4.B

In this worksheet, students will use the Latin or Greek prefixes -mono and syn- to create five different English words out of those given in the word bank. After writing five original sentences using the words these words, students will be asked to circle the word made with the prefix. This is great practice for learning how to use and identify Greek and Latin prefixes!

Grade Levels:

4th and 5th Grade, 6th — 8th Grade, Grades K-12

CCSS Code(s):

L. 5.4.B, L.6.4.B

In this worksheet, students will use the Latin or Greek prefixes -multi and kilo- to create five different English words out of those given in the word bank. After writing five original sentences using the words these words, students will be asked to circle the word made with the prefix. This is great practice for learning how to use and identify Greek and Latin prefixes!

Grade Levels:

4th and 5th Grade, 6th — 8th Grade, Grades K-12

CCSS Code(s):

L.5.4.B, L.6.4.B

In this worksheet, students will use the Latin or Greek prefixes -non and quad- to create five different English words out of those given in the word bank. After writing five original sentences using the words these words, students will be asked to circle the word made with the prefix. This is great practice for learning how to use and identify Greek and Latin prefixes!

Grade Levels:

4th and 5th Grade, Grades K-12

CCSS Code(s):

L. 4.4.B, L.5.4.B

In this worksheet, students will use the Latin or Greek prefixes -semi and mille-/milli- to create five different English words out of those given in the word bank. After writing five original sentences using the words these words, students will be asked to circle the word made with the prefix. This is great practice for learning how to use and identify Greek and Latin prefixes!

Grade Levels:

4th and 5th Grade, Grades K-12

CCSS Code(s):

L.4.4.B, L.5.4.B

Prefixes Worksheets

Understand the unique ways of prefixes to apply logic to words and decode them appropriately. Our explicit and comprehensive prefixes worksheets enable a multifaceted learning of common prefixes used in English, how they influence the change in meanings of the root words, negative prefixes and prefixes from Greek and Latin among many more. We present all these, employing versatile exercises and activities that will leave children of grade 1 through grade 5 yearning for more. We offer some free worksheets too!

Circle and Underline

We have designed this prefixes printable with an objective to instill more confidence in children to spot a prefixed word among a set of words or in a sentence, as an extended learning.

Combine Prefix with the Root Word

To tickle the brain of your little ones, here comes a prefix word box activity for them to pick up a suitable prefix, add to the right word and voila! There appears a brand new word.

Prefix-First Glance

Our first-glance worksheet on prefixes attempts to set the sight of our young learners on the basic concept of what are affixes and how they are integrated in English words.

Mark the Prefixes

Kids of grade 1 and grade 2will become eager to embark upon their fun-filled jaunt of prefixes with this illustrative worksheet, that gently nudges them to identify prefixes provided in this pdf worksheet.

Create words using Prefixes

Nurture your children through Grade 3, to attempt productive skill of creating words of their own, using the prefixes provided in this worksheet and take pride in seeing them flap their little wings.

Guess the Right Prefix

Picking up cues from the worksheet, encourage children to come up with a suitable prefix and word for each sentence context, while you sit back and enjoy the active guessing buzz.

Negative Prefixes Activity

Adding a prefix to produce a negative or opposite meaning is a widely used function of most English prefixes. This ‘learning by doing’ printable aims to provide sufficient practice of such prefixes.

Greek and Latin Prefixes

Do not let go of this opportunity to familiarize your 4th grade and 5th grade kids with prefixes that have their origin in our ancient languages and are still going strong with their ubiquity in English.

Split the Word

Children will enjoy doing this reverse exercise of splitting words into their root words, prefixes and suffixes provided in a tabular format for coherent understanding and practice.

Prefixes- Know More

Introduce the 1st grade and 2nd grade children to some commonly used prefixes and help them understand their meanings with some examples to lay a meaningful foundation.

Match the Prefix with its Root Word

Let’s make the prefixes learning more divergent, and prompt 2nd grade and 3rd grade children to connect the prefixes with their meanings and their root words at a single stroke in this exercise.

Pick and Choose- Prefix MCQ

Have children enjoy doing this quick prefixes worksheet pdf containing multiple choice questions, while also introducing some new prefixes and reinforcing previous learning.

‘Pre, Re and Post’ Prefixes

The focal point of this pdf prefixes worksheet is to help 3rd grade children understand, how ‘pre, re and post’ when used as prefixes, influence the change in meanings of their root words.

Meanings with Prefixes

Venture into doing some independent learning by digging up meanings of words before and after adding prefixes, provided in this very engaging activity for young learners in grade 4 and grade 5.

Sorting Prefix and Suffix

Have your children do this simple but interesting pdf activity of categorizing words into containing either a prefix or suffix, to broaden their learning horizons further on the topic.

Related Worksheets

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Russian lesson on the topic «The composition of the word». 3rd grade

Aims and objectives of the lesson: Creation of conditions for the systematization of knowledge on the topic «Word Composition».

Equipment:

• personal computer, presentation, student worksheets;
• 3 relay daisies;
• trailers;
• 2 locomotives.

I. Organizational moment. Emotional mood of students for lesson

Today is a wonderful and unusual day.

Let’s turn to each other and smile.

— Hold hands, look into each other’s eyes and say: «We can do anything.»

And I also want to start our lesson today in an unusual way.

II. Message of the topic of the lesson

— Guess the puzzle and you will know the topic of the lesson. What did you get?

— Composition.

— Now you can easily name the topic of the lesson…

— «The composition of the word.»

— Today we summarize all the knowledge on this topic.

— Look at the cartoon fragment.

— Who knows the name of the cartoon? (The train from Romashkov).

— Did you like the train? How?

— How can we connect this cartoon with the topic of our lesson? (a train is also a train, only a train)

III. WORK ON THE LESSON

— Word composition has several meanings. I asked our students to find the lexical meaning of the word «composition» in the dictionaries. Let’s listen.

1. Combining people, objects or signs into a single whole.
2. The product of a mixture of something.
3. Railcars coupled to each other, train.

— Which value suits us best and why? (the composition of the word is
coupling of parts of a word)

— I summarize: parts of a word are also linked together like cars in a train)

— Well, the Train will take us today to our lesson, to the Romashkovo station.

— We’ll start by reviewing what we’ve learned so far.

Consolidation of theoretical knowledge.

— Let’s remember the rules that we learned while studying the section of the textbook «Word Composition»

— Guys, what significant parts of the word do you know?

— What is the most important part of the word and why?
(The root — it carries the lexical meaning of the word.)

— Name the part of the word that changes.

— What part of the word was not named? (base)

— What can you say about the base of the word? (part of a word without ending)

— What are the signs of single-root words.
(Common lexical meaning. Same common part)

— Which feature is more important? Here’s the problem…

— The fairy tale «Stranger» will help us figure it out.

— But before we start working on solving this problem, let’s do exercises for the eyes.

Eye charger.

— Place Worksheet #1 in front of you. Read a fairy tale. Find words with the same root and highlight the root in them (perform independent work — 3 min.) After that, you will answer me the question of who turned out to be a stranger.

Worksheet 1. The text of the fairy tale

Relatives gathered at the Water. The submariner is talking with Voditsa. A diver with a waterfall is basking in the sun. The driver plays the harmonica. Water strider with Algae played. Vodicka jumps over pebbles on one leg. Even Vodyanoy himself complained. And everyone is waiting for the old woman Water.
The wise Water came out onto the porch, looked at the guests — she immediately noticed a stranger. Told him to go away to his family.

Check s/r .

— Who turned out to be a stranger?
(Driver)

— Words have one common part. Why is he a stranger?
(These words have different lexical meanings)

— What is more important?

(Lexical meaning.) We proved it! Well done!

WORK ON THE LESSON ( continued)

— What are prefixes and suffixes for?
(For the formation of new words)

— Let’s work verbally. I name the word, and you form new words with the help of prefixes and suffixes.

bridge — bridge,
magazine — journalist
light — dawn
move — exit, entrance, hike

— Well done!

— So, what is a suffix? console?

Group work. Relay «Daisy»

— Here are daisies from our train.

— Read the words to yourself on the completed chamomile.

— Now substitute the same prefixes for another word. Does everyone fit?

— But in Russian there are many other prefixes that fit this word, for example -ob, -za.

— Now you will work in groups. Each group will receive a chamomile with the words walk, work, fly.

— On the petals, write only those prefixes that match your word.

— Check your independent work, what words did you get?

— So what did you get with the consoles? (new words)

— What changed? (Meaning)

Fizminutka

— Guys, what is the order of parsing the word in composition.

— Now you will independently analyze the words in composition.

IV. INDIVIDUAL WORK

— Place Worksheet 2 in front of you. Read the task.

Worksheet 2.

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Arrange words with prefixes under- and under- in two columns:

plantain window sill t- verb ending)

(I evaluate several works)

Sub- By —

Name the words with prefixes in-, under-.

— Which word is superfluous and why?

(Pat is a verb, the rest are nouns)

Find Your Suffix Game

Worksheet 3

Complete the table. Highlight suffixes. Watch the use of suffixes.

Check

V. WORKING WITH THE SENTENCE

— Complete the task on sheet 3. Make sentences from the words.

— What needs to be done for this?

(Rearrange the words, if necessary, change the endings)

— What are the endings for?

(To connect words in a sentence)

Work with the text.

B, birch, rooks, grove, nesting. A cat, a tree, crawled, on, climbed, and, to, a nest.

Noticed, redhead, rook, robber, old.

The cat did not appear in the grove again.

(Rooks were nesting in a birch grove.

The cat climbed a tree and crawled to the nest. An old rook noticed a red-haired robber.)

— What could happen then? Guess what we could write in the last sentence?

— The rook pecked the cat hard. The cat fell off the branch to the ground. The cat didn’t like it.

— Is this text? Why?

— All offers are linked by one event.

Give a verbal title to this text. (Red Robber)

VI. SUMMARY OF THE LESSON

— Our lesson is coming to an end, and we are with you in Romashkovo!

— Let’s recap what we said in class today.

— So why is the root the most important and significant part of the word? (It carries the lexical meaning of the word)

— What are prefixes and suffixes for? (For the formation of new words)

— What are endings for? (To link words in a sentence)

VII. REFLEXION

— You have trailers of different colors on your tables. Yellow and red mean: «The lesson was interesting and useful to me.»

Blue and brown: «The lesson passed without benefit to me.»

Choose one and attach to the locomotive. We hook bright wagons to the first, darker to the second. Let’s see what happened.

The train with bright cars is longer, so the lesson was useful for us.

HOMEWORK

(written on the board)

• Compose a text of 3-4 sentences and parse 10 words in it.
• Or come up with 10 single-root words and parse them by composition.

Derivational analysis of the word. How to do?

We will teach you how to write without errors and tell interesting stories

Start learning

Words with the same root are called related for a reason. In such «families» one word comes from another and everyone has a common ancestor — a word from which other cognates were formed. We offer to dive deeper into this process and understand how word formation occurs, what words are called derivatives and non-derivatives, and also how word-formation analysis is useful. At the end of the article, you will find tasks for self-examination — they will show what you have learned.

What is word-building analysis

Word-building analysis is an analysis of a word that helps to find out whether it is derivative or non-derivative, as well as with what and from which word with the same root it was formed. To understand this, in word-formation analysis, as in morphemic analysis, we analyze the word by composition — we single out the prefix, root, stem and suffix.

So the first thing to do is to look at the meaning of the word we are analyzing. For example, a pest means «one who harms.» Words have pest and harms the same morphemes in the stem, but in the first case, the suffix -tel is also added to them. We conclude that this word pest is formed from the closest related word to harm .

In this case, the stem of the word to harm is called producing (PS), because a new word was formed from it, and the stem of the word pest is called of the derivative (PN), since it is the result of word formation.

Words with a derived stem are called derivatives , and those with a derivative stem are called derivatives . Together the derivative and generating words form word-formation pair . In our case, this is a derivative of pest and producing pest .

Test yourself!

Find generating words for the following and create word-building pairs: shield, run away, order, monetary, fascinating, pursuer, equestrian, escape, populated, multiplication, relax, frosty .

Derivative and non-derivative words

In addition to derivatives, there are non-derivative words — those that are not formed from the stem of another word with the same root.

To understand this in more detail, let’s return to our example with the word to harm . It can also be considered a derivative, because it comes from the basis of another single-root word — harm . In this case, the words have the same root harm -, but the suffix — 9 was added to the verb harm0064 and -. Thus, the word harm is derivative, and harm is productive. But it is no longer possible to find the word from which it came from the latter. So the word harm is non-derivative.

By the way, all three words no longer form a pair, but a chain of word formation , in which you can trace how the base changed: harm → harm → pest .

Test yourself!

Create a word chain that starts with the non-derived word key. .

Methods of word formation

To make a full-fledged word-formation analysis, it is necessary to determine in what way a derivative was formed from the generating word. There are 8 such word-formation methods in Russian. Let’s look at them in the table below.

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Test yourself!

Read the words below and determine in what derivational way they appeared.

Deputy Minister, blue-yellow, attractive, clamp, touch, high school student, teacher, Central Department Store, plumber, motor ship, spend the winter, landing on the moon, Volgograd.

How to do derivational analysis

It is customary to do derivational analysis according to the following algorithm:

1. We put the word we want to parse into the initial form.

2. We select the closest related word to create a derivational pair.

3. We highlight the stems of each word in a pair.

4. We single out word-building morphemes with the help of which a derivative word was formed.

5. Determine the method of word formation and write it in brackets next to the word-formation pair.

Now let’s look at a few examples to understand how to do derivational parsing.

Test yourself

It’s time to understand what you learned from this article. Below you will find 3 tasks that will test how well you now analyze the structure of words and determine the way word formation is formed.

Task 1

Replace the names below with abbreviations. What wording method did you use?

Moscow State Medical University, United Nations, United States of America, All-Russian test paper, Unified State Examination.

Task 2

Read the list of words below and find all non-derivatives among them.

Brother, corral, order, bridge, detour, kite, run, greenery, silence, beast, umbrella.

Task 3

Perform derivational analysis.

Intelligence, parishioner, southeastern, responsible, keyhole, unseen, garden, full-fledged, race, wilderness.

If word-building analysis still causes difficulties, it is better to study it in additional classes. In the Russian language course from Skysmart, the teacher will tell you everything about how words are formed and help you learn word-formation analysis on boring tasks. You can get acquainted with the platform for online education at the introductory lesson — it’s free.

Alena Fedotova

By Skysmart

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