Make-a-Word Game Chart

Name: __________________________________

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:

Root Words, Prefixes, Suffixes (http://www.betterendings.org/homeschool/words/root%20words.htm)

Spelling it Right: Prefixes (http://www.spellitright.talktalk.net/#prefixes)
Spelling it Right: Suffixes (http://www.spellitright.talktalk.net/#suffixes)
Most Common Prefixes and Suffixes
(http://teacher.scholastic.com/reading/bestpractices/vocabulary/pdf/prefixes_suffixes.pdf )

PREFIX meaning

ROOT WORD meaning

SUFFIX meaning

IN not

CRED believe

IBLE possible to

SUB

TERR

ANEAN

IN

TRANS
RE
IN

UN
DE
RE
RE

PRE

PRO
RE

INTER
PRE
PRE
RE
IN

PRO
RE

CRED
PORT

CONSIDER

COMPLETE (remove e to add suffix)

BELIEVE (remove e to add suffix)

ACTIVATE (remove e to add suffix)

LAX

ACT

CED

CEED
CED
CED
DIC
DIC

JECT
JECT
JECT
LOC

ULOUS
ATION
ATION

ION (also tion)

ABLE (also table)

TION (also ion)
ATION

ION (also tion)

ING forms present participle

ING forms present participle
ING forms present participle
ING forms present participle
TION (also ion)

TABLE (also able)

ION (also tion)
ION (also tion)
ION (also tion)
ATION