The holidays are finally settling down and I’ve had time for another posting: resources and activities for prefixes, suffixes and root Words. I like to work on these skills with students in later elementary or middle school. I don’t know that you can teach every single instance or idea so I usually like to write a goal for them to learn 15-20 root words and prefixes. I don’t ork on suffixes as much in speech therapy, but I do like to make sure they understand the basics ones (plural s, past tense -ed, -ly.)
Videos:
Youtube is a good resource for short teaching videos. These are a few that I like to use:
Flocabulary is a subscription site that uses rap music to teach different educational concepts. This is one of their videos and songs that is FREE on youtube.
Between the Lions is a an old PBS show which had some great resources for different early reading concepts. This video addresses the prefixes un- and re- .
This is the best website for FREE powerpoint activities. They also have links to lesson plans and some online games to play.
Vocabulary Games: This website has lots of games for vocabulary building. The games are pretty basic but it’s a nice review of the material, plus they change the game based on grade levels.
TV411: This website was designed for adult learning. The activities for prefixes, suffixes and root words are definitely appropriate for middle school and high school students.
