✩ Prefixes

Can you reassemble the words below by adding a prefix to each

root word? D
Remember: A prefix is a group of letters added to the beginning of a word
to change its meaning.
ex- mis- co- non- anti-

take ordinate
freeze
lead change behave

port clockwise
place fiction tend

operate

mis-

non-

ex-

co-

anti-

Can you make any more words by using the same prefixes with different
root words? D

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✩ Prefixes
a Can you reassemble the words below by adding a prefix to each
root word? D

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Remember: A prefix is a group of letters added to the beginning of a word
to change its meaning.
ex- mis- co- non- anti-

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take ordinate

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freeze
lead change behave

port clockwise

f place fiction tend

operate
e mis- mistake, mislead, misplace
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non- nonfiction

ex- export, extend, exchange

c co- coordinate, cooperate

Y anti- anticlockwise, antifreeze

s Can you make any more words by using the same prefixes with different
root words? D
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This activity helps your child to recognize prefixes,

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spelling and vocabulary. Encourage the use of a dictionary in the second

exercise; this will help your child make a wide range of words out of prefixes
and root words.
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