Root words and word building worksheets
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Words are built from parts. The root carries the meaning: play. Prefixes and suffixes snap on: re + play = replay, play + er = player.
Three grades, one set of sentences: all three print from the same 40. Print one here, or open a grade for examples and teaching notes.
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2nd grade
Second graders build words from parts, writing the assembled word: un + lock, help + ful, teach + er. Every build shows the root surviving inside its new word.
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3rd grade Core grade
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Third graders build with the full starter set of prefixes and suffixes, and can take words apart in the other direction: finding play inside replayed.
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4th grade
Fourth graders build and unbuild longer words, connecting this page to the suffix families and number prefixes elsewhere in the word-study ladder.
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