Let's Be Word Detectives!

In this on-going interactive class, students will learn a new prefix, suffix, Latin or Greek base each week through several activities.  Understanding prefixes and suffixes is an important key in reading comprehension!  When students can detect and break down a word to discover it's meaning, reading comprehension will thrive.  So let's be word detectives!  As this is an on-going class, students are welcome to join anytime.  Classes do not build on each other.

*This class is best suited for students who are reading at the beginning of 2nd grade or above.*  Students will receive worksheets before the class to print or copy down and a weekly passage that reinforces the concept learned that week.

 The class structure will include the following with times approximated:
8 min: Greetings and Introduction to affix, Latin or Greek base 
15 min: Activities may include- Word Part Web, Latin Base Activity, Word Sum, Base Tree
6-8 min:  Passage, game and review
These activities will be presented through a google slide show, whiteboard, worksheets, games and through question/answer interactions and more!

Week of September 11: Affixes -s, -es
Week of September 18: Affixes -ed, -ing
Week of September 25: Affixes -er, -or, -est
Week of October 2: Latin base 'rupt'
Week of October 9: Latin base 'tract'
Week of October 16:  Latin base 'form'
Week of October 23: Affix un-
Week of October 30: Affix in- (il-, im-, ir-)
Week of November 6: Affix mis-
Week of November 13: Affix dis-, dif-
Week of November 20: *NO CLASS*
Week of November 27: Latin base 'port'
Week of December 4: Latin base 'struct'
Week of December 11: Greek bases 'graph', 'gram', 'phon', 'photo', 'tele'
Week of December 18: Affix fore-
Week of December 25: *NO CLASS*
Week of January 1: *NO CLASS*
Week of January 8:  Affix re-
Week of January 15: Affix de-
Week of January 22: Affix pre-
Week of January 29: Latin base 'dict'
Week of February 5: Latin base 'cred'
Week of February 12: Greek bases 'auto', 'micro', 'ology', 'scope'
Week of February 19: Affix a-, ab- an-
Week of February 26: Affix -ly
Week of March 5: Affix -ion
Week of March 12: *NO CLASS*
Week of March 19: Affix -able, -ible
Week of March 26: Latin base 'scrib', 'script'
Week of April 2: Latin base 'flex', 'flect'
Week of April 9: Greek bases 'biblio', 'bio', hydr(o)', phobia