Language Arts Websites

Theme One

 

Prefix Suffix Root Words

Virtual Salt:  Root Word and prefix list.
 http://www.virtualsalt.com/roots.htm

 

Simple Teaching:  Root, prefix, and suffix list – pretty extensive.
 http://www.betterendings.org/homeschool/Words/Root%20Words.htm

 

List of common prefixes:

http://www.spelling.hemscott.net/prefix1.html

Fish Tanks:  Identify prefix, root word, and suffix for specific words.  Then check your answers.

http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/fishtanks1/fish_tanks_front.htm

Prefix Mix:  Fill in the correct prefix (uni, bi, tri, quad, pre, post, pro, un, in, anti, inter) to complete sentences.  Then check your answers.  Move on to the next activity when finished.  Slide shows included to help explain the activity.  A vocabulary help to the left gives clues for the answers.

http://www.tv411.org/lessons/cfm/vocabulary.cfm?str=vocabulary&num=1&act=1

 

Rooting Out Words:  Funbrain – select the level of difficulty.  Gives definition of prefix/suffix and then you find the word that matches the definition using the correct prefix/suffix.

http://www.funbrain.com/funbrain/roots/index.html

 

Vocabulary:  Suffixes:  Choose definitions of words based on their suffixes and their context clues.  Make new words by adding a suffix to their root.  Use suffixes to complete words.  (Uses suffixes able, ful, less, ly, er, less, or).  Four activities with support from definitions of suffixes and hints.

http://www.tv411.org/lessons/cfm/vocabulary.cfm?str=vocabulary&num=10&act=1

 

Suffix-ly:  Practice with the suffix –ly.  This activity combines the interactive computer and a “try it on your own” writing activity.

http://www.beaconlearningcenter.com/WebLessons/Suffixly/default.htm

Roots and Their Families:  Part One: Practice with  root words (ped/pod, graph, hydr, therm, dict).  Four activities with root word definitions, hints, finish the word part, and ability to try again/wrap up.

http://www.tv411.org/lessons/cfm/vocabulary.cfm?str=vocabulary&num=5&act=3&que=1

 

Roots and Their Families:  Part Two:  Practice with root words (syn, trans, spec, tele, auto).  Same as above, just the next 5 roots. *  Note:  the first activity may not work.  Just look at the definitions and then move on to the next activity by clicking on the menu bar at the top of the page.

http://www.tv411.org/lessons/cfm/vocabulary.cfm?num=6&act=2&que=1
 

Maggie’s Earth Adventure:  Practice matching prefix and suffix with their meaning.  Four different levels of play are available.

http://www.missmaggie.org/scholastic/shortcircuit_eng_launcher.html

 

BBC Skillwise:  Prefix.  Webpage starts with a fact sheet of definitions.  Students can then print out worksheets to practice and finally take an interactive quiz.  Three levels of difficulty.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/spelling/wordbuilding/prefixes/index.shtml

 

BBC Skillwise:  Suffixes.   Webpage starts with a fact sheet of definitions.  Students can then print out worksheets to practice and finally take an interactive quiz.  Three levels of difficulty.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/spelling/wordbuilding/suffixes/index.shtml

 

BBC Skillwise:  Root Words:  Webpage starts with a fact sheet of definitions.  Students can then print out worksheets to practice and finally take an interactive quiz.  Three levels of difficulty.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/spelling/wordbuilding/rootwords/index.shtml

 

Fling the Teacher:  Students answer questions using proper prefixes and suffixes.  They may need a sheet of prefix/suffix meanings to refer to.  Once they get all the answers correct, they fling the teacher.

http://www.newton.k12.ks.us/tech/fling5.htm

 

Roots and Prefixes Game:  Tests knowledge of Latin and Greek roots and prefixes.

http://www.quia.com/jg/66094.html

 

Practice with Prefixes 1:  Practice with prefixes un, pre, dis, in, post.  Students are able to go back to information page to help with interactive practice.

http://www.wisc-online.com/objects/index_tj.asp?objid=ESL1002

 

Practice with Prefixes 2:  Practice with prefixes re, sub, mid, non.  Students are able to go back to information page to help with interactive practice.

http://www.wisc-online.com/objects/index_tj.asp?objid=ESL1102

 

Practice with suffixes –nouns: -hood, -age, -al, -ity, -dom, -ment, -ness, -ship, -ist, -an, er.  Students are able to go back to information page to help with interactive practice.

http://www.wisc-online.com/objects/index_tj.asp?objid=ESL2203

 

Practice with suffixes-verbs:  -ize, -ate, -en, -fy, -ify.  Students are able to go back to information page to help with interactive practice.

http://www.wisc-online.com/objects/index_tj.asp?objid=ESL2303

 

Practice Suffix Worksheets:  Five different worksheets to help with suffixes.

http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/palmasola/ps4glepsuf.htm

 

Practice Prefix Worksheets:  6 practice worksheets to help with prefixes.

http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/palmasola/prefixes35.htm

 

Practicing Suffixes:  This website is easier and good for English Language Learners.

http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ela4/h/suffixl.cfm

 

Input/Output with prefixes/suffixes by Hartcourt:  students are given 3 prefixes or suffixes and asked to put the correct one in the machine.  The machine’s output is a new word.  Students identify if it makes sense.  Then they need to identify which sentence it makes sense in.

http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity_collections_preview/wordworks/3_endings3.html

 

Making Sentences:  Basic information on making sentences.  Includes fact sheets, games, quizzes, and extra worksheets to practice skill.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/grammar/sentencebasics/whatisasentence/

 

Simple Subject and Simple Predicate:  Rags to Riches – Student find the simple subject and simple predicate by reading the sentence and answering the question.  They continue as they build points (“Who Wants To Be A Millionaire Format”).

http://www.quia.com/rr/36765.html

Subject and predicate/simple subject and simple predicate:  Information on what is a subject and predicate.  Practice review in which students write the answers to the questions and then check their responses. 

http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/subjpred.html

 

Types of sentences with grammar practice:  Sentence Clubhouse:  Students select a type of sentence and determine if it is interrogative, imperative, exclamatory or declarative.  They then use capitalization and punctuation to complete the sentence.

http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/clubhouse/index_pre.html

 

Sentences:  Quiz on types of sentences including imperative, simple subject, simple predicate, run on sentences, and conjunctions.  Students have the choice to continue on to new quizzes.

http://www.eduplace.com/cgi-bin/hme-quiz-start.cgi?Grade=5&Unit=1&Topic=The+Sentence&x=22&y=2

 

Sentence Quiz:  Types of sentences, subject and predicate, simple subject and predicate, compound subject, compound sentence, and correlative conjunctions.

Miscellaneous Skills

Dividing words into syllables:  Space Station of the 21st Century:  There are five sets of 10 questions.  Answer the questions correctly and build a space station of the future. 

http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/spacestation/directions.htm