Learning prefixes and suffixes can help students guess the meaning of new or unfamiliar words which is a valuable skill. There are currently 96 worksheets to help you teach students about prefixes and suffixes and give students more practice using them. Let's take a look at a couple of the worksheets from this section. This worksheet focuses on five prefixes and gives students lots of practice with more than thirty sentences. The answer key is provided so it couldn't be easier to use this worksheet in your classes. If you do not want to dedicate that much time to prefixes, you might still want to use some of the sentences from this worksheet. For additional assistance when planning your lessons, here is a table of suffixes that can help you organize your teaching materials. These worksheets are not ideal for every teacher or course but there are others as well. Take a moment to look over some more worksheets. They are all free and printable so you can download as many as you'd like.
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It's about very rare word ending that appears in only a couple of words in the English language. We have stopped counting how many times we have received this question by email… "There are ...
A 2-page worksheet, suitable for intermediate students, on adjective formation. It includes explanations and example sentences at the top of the page followed by 3 exercises in which students are ...
It is a comprehensive worksheet on the word families and is best for the students of intermediate level and above. It also helps practise the formation of nouns, adjectives, adverbs and verbs from ...
This is a Pre-Intermediate/Intermediate word search puzzle for teaching and revision of the prefixes used to form a negative form of an adjective. List of words used in this word search: IMPOLITE ...
A puzzle for the use of prefixes in- and im- Original words: imperfect, indecent, impolite, impatient, incorrect, inhuman Final word or phrase: Impressive Created using our FREE Double Puzzle Cr ...
Worksheet for pre-intermediate students to learn and practise compound nouns. The students are asked to study 25 compound nouns: aircraft, airmail, armchair, blackboard, butterfly, blueberry, clas ...
Students have to put the adjectives in the relevant boxes marked im/un/in - initially the teacher should do some pronunciation work, drill the students on word stress etc and check the meanings (d ...
Do your students need some additional word formation practice? This worksheet could be just what they need . They have to complete the texts with the correct derivatives and compound words. There ...
This wordsearch will be used for students to look for the prefixes/ suffixes in each word. Later they will be asked to write sentences using those words. List of words used in this word search: L ...
The lyrics celebrate the political changes in Eastern Europe at that time – such as the Polish Round Table Agreement and fall of the Berlin Wall, the increasing freedom in the communist bloc ...
This worksheet contains different kinds of vocabulary work dealing with the topic economic activity. Special attention is paid to the word usage of: economic, economical, economically, economize e ...
A very nice reading passage for pre-intermediate levels. I've enjoyed a lot making this worksheet and included many comprehension exercises(4 pages). So, I really hope you like it.
It has: 1) a v ...
This is a pre, while, post-viewing worksheet based on a short part of the famous Twilight film. It is the scene where Bella and her schoolmates talk about the school event. Students are asked to f ...
Use as a sort or matching puzzle to learn the English suffixes. Cut out the definition cards. Use them to match against the suffixes. Each suffix has examples of words to use as hints.
When it ...
This is a reading activity for grades 4-6, with 2 pages of text and several post-reading activities (multiple choice questions, prefixes practice, creative writing activity).
You will need ...
Suffixes are added to the end of root or base words. When you add a suffix to a base word, you change the word's meaning. some common suffixes and their meanings: -able= can be done, - est = most, ...
Prefixes are added to the beginning of root or base words. When you add a prefix to a base word, you change the word's meaning. Some common prefixes and their meanings: re- again, back; dis- not, ...
This 11-page worksheet was kindly provided by Evan-MoorCorp and contains a reading text about chewing gum, spelling activities, vocabulary matching and a page (writing a letter) on using commas co ...
This is a kind of ready-made reference that could be used to learn Word-building. It has some useful information about 'affixes' that helps making more words from root words...
This is a game-like activity to study suffixes and prefixes. Cut the words into letters and ask students to collect.
Each student collects one word by one.
It may be used as a warm-up. Any level.
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