Getting to the Roots of Content-Area Vocabulary
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Starting with Prefixes and Suffixes
by Timothy Rasinski, Nancy Padak, Rick Newton, and Evangeline Newton
Published 1 April 2013
Dive into prefixes and suffixes where students in grades 2 4 will expand their vocabularies and improve their word knowledge. Starting with Prefixes and Suffixes is a standards-based resource that introduces common Latin and Greek prefixes and suffixes and presents them in ways that are easy to understand and apply. Each lesson provides necessary content explanations, instructional guidelines, and activities to help students decipher meaning by analyzing work parts and word groups. Additional resources are offered to assist teachers facilitate learning with an appendix offering more activities, extensions, and flashcards. This resource is correlated to College and Career Readiness and other state standards.
Practice with Prefixes
by Tim Rasinski, Nancy Padak, Rick Newton, and Evangeline Newton
Published 1 April 2012
Help your students expand their vocabularies and deepen word knowledge with Practice with Prefixes. This standards-based resource presents the most frequently encountered Latin and Greek prefixes in a way that is easy to implement and understand. Each lesson provides necessary content explanations, instructional guidelines, and student activities to help learners determine meaning by analyzing word parts. With the key to understanding both everyday and academic vocabulary at their fingertips, all students will be delighted to discover how easy it is to learn the meanings of prefixes.