These Word Study Notebook Pages are the perfect way to work on prefixes, suffixes, and root words! {Psst! They’re printable AND digital!}
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Word Study Notebook Pages {for Affixes and Root Words}
Over the last semester, my 5th grader and I have been working through some Greek and Latin Roots. This has helped him not only in his ability to recognize chunks in longer words to decode them, but also with his vocabulary. Since the year is winding down, I decided that instead of plowing through more roots, I’d provide him a way to review the ones he’s worked on.
I thought that some word study notebook pages would be prefect! Just cut around the outside line, and it will fit right into a spiral word study notebook!
You’ll find notebook pages for prefixes, suffixes, and root words!
Each word study notebook page asks learners to:
- write the word part at the top
- define the word part
- write example words that have the word part
- sketch a picture to show the word’s meaning
- write a strong sentence to go with the picture*
*Since my 5th grader tends to try to get off easy, I explained to him that strong sentences have a rich context for the word. In other words, I can read the sentence and know that he knows the meaning of the word.
For example, “Becky saw a quadruped,” is weak sentence. “Zebras are quadrupeds because they have four legs,” is a much stronger sentence.
Also included in the file is a quick list of common prefixes, suffixes, and root words so you or your learners can reference them if needed.
DIGITAL Word Study Notebook Pages
Looking for DIGITAL word study notebooking pages? You can find links to both Seesaw AND Google Slides in the free PDF. Oh yes, you will!
In the digital files, text boxes have been added for learners to type in their responses to the pages. Please note that you can copy and edit activities in both Seesaw and Google Slides to make them work exactly how you need them to for your learners.
Read more about how to use Seesaw here and Google Slides here.
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Enjoy teaching!
~Becky
Hi Becky! I have a soft spot for word study things. One thing I do with my students – to get them to write strong sentences – is I tell them their sentence has to have at least seven words. I don’t always get perfect sentences, but I never get the “I have a quadruped.” kind and that’s a win in my book. Plus we get to talk about parts of speech, phrasing, meanings of words, etc. as we make our sentences stonger. Thanks so much for this and all your great resources.
Awesome tip! 🙂