Prefix games for 3rd grade

Review affixes with this prefix and suffix review game with Jenga blocks! Get all the details and free printables to engage your students in this fun review of prefixes and suffixes!

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Teaching grammar CAN be fun! Check out this blog post featuring five fun, free grammar games and activities! It includes four free games and a writing activity!

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Help your 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students become better at decoding multisyllabic words with these prefix, suffix, and base word activities. Have upper elementary students break apart words, use prefix and suffix anchor charts, build new words, play games, go on a scavenger hunt, and more to improve their decoding skills.

Have students play the games in small groups to practice the prefix, suffix or root word. These games are part of the detailed sample of the series.

Teaching the meanings of prefixes and suffixes is undoubtedly a skill that needs to be scaffolded over multiple grade levels. When I taught second grade, my main goal was to teach students how a prefix or a suffix affected the meaning of a word. We started with five basic prefixes and six basic suffixes. (Check out this affix blog post at my personal blog if you want to view my anchor chart, or read about my favorite way to introduce prefixes and suffixes to younger students.) Then, with…

Guess what we've been studying? Pretty much what it seems everyone else has been studying! As I finished my Greek Mythology unit with my 4th grade enrichment friends, we closed by studying Greek word parts. The picture above shows the standards we met and a quick view of the big letters. Take a look at the finished display below, and I'll explain just what we did. Ignore my pocketbook and mess on the table! After finishing reading various myths and completing projects related to them, we…

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My oldest {just finished 3rd grade} has struggled to read longer words for some time now. He’s the reason I designed this organizer for reading longer words. And while we spent a little bit of time talking about prefixes and suffixes, we never camped on it for very long…until lately. I created a bunch of ... Read More about Learning About Prefixes and Suffixes {FREE Pack}