PATRICIA LOURDES HARO LOPEZ

UNIVERSIDAD VIZCAYA DE LAS AMERICAS

CAMPUS COLIMA

October 15th, 2014

1.- KWL charts
SAMPLE KWL CHART
KNOW WANT LEARNED




Students will be given a photocopy with this KWL chart and will be instructed to write on the first
column (know), everything they know about prefixes and suffixes.
The teacher will help the students with leveled question like:
* What is a prefix?
* What is a suffix?
* What are prefixes and suffixes used for?
* After using prefixes and suffixes, words are the same part of speech?
* How does this knowledge help you increase your vocabulary?
If students do not know the answer for some of the questions, they will write them down under the
second column. (want)
The teacher will provide a set of photocopies so the students can look for the information and write it
down under the third column (learnt).

2.- Collecting and processing words.
Students are grouped in teams of four to promote partner work and peer tutoring.
One of the students should have a higher level of proficiency in academic skills. Another one, should be
good at sentence structure and good at recognizing parts of speech, and the other two have to be weaker
students who can take advantage of their peers skills and tutoring.
Students are given two minutes to read and process the grammar information about prefixes and suffixes.
Students are given four minutes to find the answers for the first hand out. The teacher assigns a number
to every team and encourages them to compete passing to the board and writing the answers on the
handouts projected on it. The teacher checks answers and declares the winner team.
Students are given another four minutes to solve the second hand out and continue competing writing
the words on the board. The teacher checks answers and declares the second winner team.

Attaching Prefixes and Suffixes:

Prefixes are word parts you add to the beginning of a word to change its meaning;
suffixes are word parts you add to the end of a word to change its meaning. (part of speech).
Because many useful words are created by adding prefixes and suffixes to root words, you can save a lot of time
by knowing how to add prefixes and suffixes. Let's take a look at the guidelines.
Attaching Prefixes
The rule here is simple: Don't add or omit a letter when you attach a prefix. Keep all the lettersevery one of
them. Here are some examples.
Prefix Word New Word
dis + satisfied = dissatisfied
mis + spell = misspell
un + acceptable = unacceptable
re + election = reelection
inter + related = interrelated

Attaching Suffixes
Keep all the letters when you add a suffix unless the word ends in a y or a silent e. We'll talk about them later.
The following chart and guidelines show you how to master the suffix situation.
Word Suffix New Word
accidental + ly = accidentally
drunken + ness = drunkenness
ski + ing = skiing
foresee + able = foreseeable
1. If the letter before the final y is a consonant, change the y to i and add the suffix. Study these examples.
Word Suffix New Word
hurry + ed = hurried
greedy + ly = greedily


Bank of Prefixes
dis-
il-
im-
pre-
re-
un-
Bank of Suffixes
-able
-al
-ful
-ion
-ly
-y
Use the bank of prefixes and suffixes to complete each word. There may be more than one answer for
some words.
Prefix - Root Word - Suffix Prefix - Root Word - Suffix
____cover____ ____predict____
____like____ ____proper____
____agree____ ____success____
____logic____ ____comfort____
____order____ ____equal____
____expected____ ____construct____
____act____ ____reason____
____luck____ ____honor____
____trust____ ____usual____
____connect____ ____new____

or each prefix, write a word that begins with that prefix. Write as many as you can!
Prefix Words that begin with the prefix
anti-
de-
dis-
ex-
il-
im-
in-
non-
over-
pre-
re-
sub-
tri-
un-
with-