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What are we Identifying today?

What are we Identifying today?. Use common roots and affixes when attached to known vocabulary. Discuss with your partner the prefixes in each of the following words. Unwrap Redecorate Remake. Root Words and Affixes.

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What are we Identifying today?

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  1. What are we Identifying today? Use common roots and affixes when attached to known vocabulary

  2. Discuss with your partner the prefixes in each of the following words • Unwrap • Redecorate • Remake

  3. Root Words and Affixes • A root word is a word without any word parts added to the beginning or end. • Example: unwrap redecorate remake

  4. The Importance of knowing root words Good readers use root words to understand meaning of words

  5. How do we identify roots? • Identify the part of the words that would remain a word without anything added to the beginning or end Let's at some examples audi sound Audience, audio, audition cycl Bicycle, tricycle, recycle Wheel or circle dict speak Diction, verdict Lithograph, graph graph write

  6. Rules • When a root word ends in a silent "e", the e is               dropped before adding a suffix.  (ex.) un + bake + ed     becomes    unbaked  When a root word ends in a consonant, the consonant is "doubled" before adding a suffix beginning with a vowel. • (ex.) re + run+ing     becomes    rerunning

  7. Directions With a partner, choose a root Find words that contain your root word with in the dictionary On the Christmas ornament write your new words At the bottom of the page choose two of your and write a sentence Create a Christmas Tree using root words

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