Word Wizards

Help your students become word wizards! In this creative and engaging lesson, students will review roots, prefixes, and suffixes before creating their own words and definitions.

Grade

Fifth Grade

Subject

Reading & Writing

View aligned standards

L.5.4.b

Learning Objectives

Students will be able to determine the meaning of words using roots, prefixes, and suffixes.

Introduction

(5minutes)

Show “Prefixes, Suffixes, & Roots” Rap (link in resources).
Explain: "Today we are going to become word wizards! We will use what we know about prefixes, suffixes, and root words to build our own words."