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Grade 5 Reading & Writing Β· World 2: Root Temple Β· Level 9
Prefixes That Tell How and Where
Anti-, co-, de-, ex-, fore-, inter-, mid-, semi-, super-.
Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.
What children learn in Level 9
- Welcome to the Root Temple! Long words were built from old pieces. Find the pieces, and you can work out the meaning. Prefixes come first.
- Some prefixes tell how. Anti means against, so antifreeze works against freezing. Co means together, so a coauthor writes with someone.
- Some tell where or when. Ex means out, so you exhale, or breathe out. Inter means between, so an interstate road runs between states.
- Be careful: a word can start with those letters and not have the prefix. In the word comb, c o isn't a prefix. Check that the rest still means something.
Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards:
- 5.L.V.2.a β Deconstruct words using knowledge of Greek and Latin roots, root words, and affixes to determine meaning. (I)