Make-a-Word Game Chart
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Date: _______________
Instructions: Fill in the definitions of the prefixes, root words, and suffixes as has been done for you in the first
row using the following websites:
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oot Words, Prefixes, Suffixes (http://www.betterendings.org/homeschool/Words/Root%20Words.htm)
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Spelling it Right: Prefixes (http://www.spelling.hemscott.net/prefix1.html)
Spelling it Right: Suffixes (http://www.spelling.hemscott.net/suffix1.html)
Decoding Print: Phonics With Intermediate Readers (http://wilearns.state.wi.us/apps/default.asp?cid=378)
PREFIX – meaning
ROOT WORD – meaning
SUFFIX – meaning
IN – not
CRED – believe
IBLE – possible to
IN –
CRED –
ULOUS –
SUB –
TERR –
ANEAN –
TRANS –
PORT –
ATION –
RE –
CONSIDER –
ATION –
IN –
COMPLETE (remove e to add suffix) –
ION – (also tion)
UN –
BELIEVE (remove e to add suffix) –
ABLE – (also table)
DE –
ACTIVATE (remove e to add suffix) –
TION – (also ion)
RE –
LAX –
ATION –
RE –
ACT –
ION – (also tion)
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Make-a-Word Game Chart (cont.)
PREFIX – meaning
ROOT WORD – meaning
SUFFIX – meaning
PRE –
CED –
ING – forms present participle
PRO –
CEED –
ING – forms present participle
RE –
CED –
ING – forms present participle
INTER –
CED –
ING – forms present participle
PRE –
DIC –
TION – (also ion)
PRE –
DIC –
TABLE – (also able)
RE –
JECT –
ION – (also tion)
IN –
JECT –
ION – (also tion)
PRO –
JECT –
ION – (also tion)
RE –
LOC –
ATION –
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