Root Words & Suffixes Worksheet

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L.4.4.B
L.4.4

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About the "Root Words & Suffixes" Worksheet

Root Words & Suffixes is an engaging language arts resource designed to enhance students' understanding of word structure and composition. This interactive and printable worksheet challenges learners to dissect words into their constituent parts, focusing on the identification of root words and suffixes. The activity presents a carefully curated list of eleven words, including happiness, helpful, hopeful, quickly, colorful, fearless, painful, slowly, sadness, careful, and playful.

Through this exercise, students are tasked with dividing each word into two parts: the root word and the suffix. They are required to write these components on separate lines, encouraging a visual and practical understanding of word formation. This approach not only reinforces vocabulary skills but also cultivates an analytical mindset towards language. By breaking down familiar words, learners gain insights into how suffixes modify or extend the meaning of root words, laying a strong foundation for advanced word study and comprehension.

What will your child learn through this worksheet?

Recognition and identification of root words and suffixes
Understanding of word structure and composition
Improved vocabulary analysis skills
Enhanced awareness of how suffixes modify word meanings

Learning Outcomes

Cognitive

Students will correctly identify the root word and suffix in at least 9 out of 11 given words
Learners will explain how suffixes change the meaning or function of root words for 80% of the examples

Psychomotor

Students will neatly write the root word and suffix on separate lines for each word
Learners will demonstrate improved handwriting skills through repeated practice

Affective

Students will show increased confidence in approaching unfamiliar words by breaking them into parts
Learners will develop a positive attitude towards word analysis and language exploration

Interpersonal/Social

Students will engage in collaborative discussions about word structures and meanings
Learners will practice explaining their reasoning for word divisions to peers

Common Core Standards Covered

L.4.4

Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 4 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.

L.4.4.b

Use common, grade-appropriate Greek and Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word (e.g., telegraph, photograph, autograph).