Building words
Goals
- Identify prefixes, base words, and suffixes.
- Build words by combining prefixes, base words, and suffixes.
- Demonstrate an understanding of word classes by identifying the word class of the newly derived words.
- Demonstrate an understanding of derivational morphology by using newly derived words in sentences.
Lesson Plan
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Building words: Activity
In this activity, explore how words are built out of a prefix, base form and a suffix.
What meanings do different prefixes and suffixes have? Can any base form take any prefix or suffix? How can you manipulate language to create new forms? For example, deread is not an English word. What might it mean?