4th-5th Grade Level 12 Sort It Prefixes and Suffixes & Texts PDF

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Prefixes & Suffixes

Read It & Listen for the Ending Sounds

Look at this ending:

The “tion” Ending
+ Friends

tion

Have you ever noticed this strange spelling for the sounds /shun/ at the end of words?
Hundreds of words in the English language use this ending. It’s from the Latin language-a
language spoken a long, long time ago but it still forms the roots of many of our words today.
Read these words and listen for the ending sound of the “tion” spelling and its friends, “sion”
and “tial.”

ques tion
tel e vi sion
po ten tial
na tion
di vi sion
e ssen tial
What sounds did you hear?
If you said /shun/, /zhun/, and /shul/, then you are right!

Sort It

The “tion” Ending + Friends

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Cut out the words below, read them, and sort them by their ending chunk.

potential

information

decision

nation

essential

action

population

profession

position

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presidential

direction

discussion

education

substantial

condition

expression

section

division

addition

occasion

production

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Bonus!

After sorting by ending spelling, you could also sort the “sion” ending
into two different chunks: /zhun/ and /shun/. Or, you might want to
find as many /ay/ sound words as possible.

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Prefixes are word parts that come before a root, or main, word. Can you guess what
the prefix in “dislike” is? Did you guess, “dis?” You’re right! And what do you think it
means? Yes, the prefix “dis” means “not” or “the opposite of.”

Prefixes

Try to spot the prefixes in the following words:

redo

unhappy

disappear

Did you guess “re,” “un,” and “dis?” Then you are on your way to understanding prefixes!

Write what you think each of these prefixes mean below:

re un dis –

Cut out the word part cards below. Then play a game where you race to make as many real
words as you can in 3 minutes. There are several possibilities! Afterwards, write 5 of them on
the dry erase board, saying each chunk as you write each chunk.

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mark

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less

action

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cover

usual

place

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fortunately

turn

expected

move

known

view

call

appear

act

appoint

make

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dis

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dis

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dis

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Read It

In keeping with our recent story about the “Blind Men and the Elephant,” today
we will read a text that also is about an elephant. Long before Dr. Suess, Shel
Silverstein and Jack Prelutsky began writing silly, funny poems, Laura Richards
wrote funny peoms such as “Eletelephony” below. It has several nonsense, or
not real words, that will really challenge your Blend As You Read-by Chunks
strategy.

Eletelephony
by Laura E. Richards

Once there was an elephant,
Who tried to use the telephant—
No! No! I mean an elephone
Who tried to use the telephone—
(Dear me! I am not certain quite
That even now I’ve got it right.)
Howe’er1 it was, he got his trunk
Entangled2 in the telephunk;
The more he tried to get it free,
The louder buzzed the telephee—
(I fear I’d better drop the song
Of elephop and telephong!)
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