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Learning Objectives

1. Define what Affixes are

2. Differentiate Prefixes and Suffixes

3. Create new words by adding selected prefixes and suffixes to root words

II. Subject Matter

Topic: Affixes

Source: TG, LG

Materials: Laptop, LCD, Power point Presentation, Manila Paper, Marker, Masking
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Skills: Grammar

III. Learning Tasks

A. PREPARATORY ACTIVITIES

 Prayer
 Greetings
 Checking of Attendance
 HORN (Words of the Week)
1. Bonafide
2. Lupid
3. Inalienable
4. Miniature
5. Steadfast

B. ACTIVITIES

1. Initial Task- Describe me!

Describe the following pictures.

Let’s use these words in the following column.

C. ANALYSIS – Affix Column

Jumbled the following word parts on the board: review, pretest, unbeatable,
tastless, prayerful, and camper. On another part of the board, make a chart with the
following column titles: Complete Word, Prefix, Root Word, Suffix, and Meaning. Let the
student dissect the words and place it in the column.
 Complete word Prefix Root word Suffix
Review
Pretest
Unbeatable
Colorless
Thankful
Camper

Questions:
1. What did you notice with the root word? How did you identify the root word?
2. What can you say about the prefix? The suffix?
3. What happened when we add prefixes and suffixes to the base word?
4. Why do you think we use prefixes and suffixes?

C. ABSTRACTION

Questions:
1. What is an Affix? Prefixes? Suffixes?
2. Show other examples of prefixes and affixes and their meaning.
3. In simplest form, can we summarize our lesson today?
Prefix + Root Word + Suffix

D. APPLICATION

Make 2 words from each root word below using the suffixes in the box.

-s, -es, -ed, -er, -ful, -less

1. paint 2. care 3. light

ROOT WORD

IV. EVALUATION

Add a prefix or suffix to the root word in the brackets to complete each sentence.

1. She wanted to be a _____________[physics] when she grows up.

2. I wish I had ____________[heated] the oven before putting in the cupcakes.

3. The baby was being ________[bash] when he hid behind his mother’s leg.

4. It takes_________[thought] to plan for retirement.

5. It is pretty________[fool] to jump off the monkey bars.

V. HOMEWORK.

Research about the different kinds of linear and non-linear texts.

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