Lesson Plan
Prefix Partner Practice
Students will enjoy playing a dice game in this interactive lesson on prefixes and their meanings.
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Learning Objectives
Students will be able to define the meaning of common prefixes, and generate multiple examples of words with prefixes.
Introduction
(5 minutes)- Write the words 'pretest, preview, and preheat' on the board and ask students to turn to a partner to discuss the meanings of these words.
- Underline the prefix 'pre' in each of the words and circle the rest of the word. Tell students that these words are made up of a prefix (underlined) and a root word (circled). In this case, the prefix 'pre' means before.
- Tell students that a prefix is a group of letters that cannot stand on its own and must be attached to the beginning of a root word, to create a new word with a different meaning.