Prefix and suffix slider
Teaching notes
The accompanying slider (on the PowerPoint presentation) works best if you are able to print the
slides onto coloured paper, and laminate these. Provide your students with white board pens if
you’d like them to complete the word generator activity.
You could display the list of root words (on the PowerPoint presentation) on the whiteboard
after your students have made their sliders, and distribute the lists of prefixes and suffixes for
further support.
Additional teaching ideas
Your students could explore prefixes and suffixes using the following activities.
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Quick starter activity
Give students a prefix. Which pair of students can think of the most words beginning with
that prefix?
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Another quick starter activity
Give students a root word. Who can create the most new words just by adding prefixes
and/or suffixes? (Use the Prefix and suffix slider and lists of common prefixes and suffixes
to support this.)
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Word investigation
Give more complex words which include a prefix/suffix. Who can work out what the word
means? (Use the Prefix and suffix slider and lists of common prefixes and suffixes to
support this.)
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Text investigation
Take a page of text from a book you are reading. Which pair of students can identify the
most words containing prefixes/suffixes on the page within a given time limit? Discuss the
meanings of these words and other words which use the same prefix or suffix.
Common prefixes and suffixes
If your students need additional support, or if you would like to create alternative sliders, the
following lists of common prefixes and suffixes might be useful.
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Prefix and suffix slider
Common prefixes
Common suffixes
anti (against)
-able –ible (can be done)
bi (two)
-ed (past tense verb)
de (opposite)
-er (comparison)
dis (opposite)
-er (person who does something e.g. worker)
fore (before)
-est (superlative)
in / im (in)
-ful (full of)
in / im / il / ir (not)
-ic (having characteristics of)
inter (between)
-ing (verb form)
micro (small)
-ion –tion –ation, -ition (process)
mid (middle)
-ise (verb)
mis (wrongly)
-ify (make adjectives and nouns into verbs)
multi (several)
-ive –ative – itive (adjective)
non (not)
-less (without)
over (over)
-ly (characteristic of)
photo (light)
-ment (process)
pre (before)
-ness (state of)
re (again)
-ous –eous –ious (quality of)
semi (half)
-s –es (plural, third person verb)
sub (under)
super (above)
tele (far)
trans (across)
tri (three)
un (not)
under (under)
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