Biographies - Crack the Code
Completion requirements
Unit 1
What Does it Mean to Show Respect?
Read p. 9 in Literacy in Action 5A
Read with a Purpose
The larger your vocabulary is, the easier it is to read.
Reading more, gives you a bigger vocabulary.
Grade 5s need to learn 6-8 new words per day to become successful readers.
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1. Watch Roots, Prefixes, Suffixes to learn more about prefixes and suffixes.
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2. Watch the Word Works Grade 4 student analyzing prefix, suffix, and root and explaining the meaning of the word dissident.
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3. Watch the video "Making Sense of Spelling"
BrainPOP Log-In
1. Watch Roots, Prefixes, Suffixes to learn more about prefixes and suffixes.
Click on this link for BrainPOP.
(Log-in: User: 0099, Password: students.)
2. Watch the Word Works Grade 4 student analyzing prefix, suffix, and root and explaining the meaning of the word dissident.
Word Works
3. Watch the video "Making Sense of Spelling"
to understand how words such as one, alone, onion, atone, and eleven are related.
Biographies - Crack the Code
You may be able to break the three words at the top right of p. 9 down into smaller parts.
Think:
Here’s a word I haven’t seen before: autobiography. The first think
I’ll do is see whether there are any parts I know.
A prefix is a group of letters added to the end of a word. When you add a prefix to the beginning of a word, you change the meaning of the word.
I see I can divide the word into auto, a prefix which means self, and the root word biography, which means "a story of a person's life."
If I put the two parts together I know that autobiography is a story that a person writes about their own life!
A prefix is a group of letters added to the end of a word. When you add a prefix to the beginning of a word, you change the meaning of the word.
I see I can divide the word into auto, a prefix which means self, and the root word biography, which means "a story of a person's life."
If I put the two parts together I know that autobiography is a story that a person writes about their own life!
- con - means with or together in Latin. (conflict, contact, context, contest etc.)
- re - means again in Latin (replay, revisit, redo etc.)
- un - means not in Latin (unhappy, unmatched etc.)
- pre - means before in Latin (preview, pretest etc.)
- mis - means wrong or bad in Latin (mistake, misadventure, misbehave etc.)
- sub - means under in Latin (submarine, substitute, subcontractor etc.)
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im, in, un, non, and dis - mean unable or not, opposite, or apart in Latin (impatient, impossible, inept, nonsense, unhappy, disassociate, disagree etc.)
