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Root Words Worksheets
Root words worksheets help children understand word formation by focusing on root words and affixes. Guide learners to break down words and see how affixes change meanings. These activities build vocabulary, spelling, and language skills. Walk through some of these worksheets for free!
Identifying Root Words in Prefixes and Suffixes
Teach children to break down large, new, or unfamiliar words into their most basic units to discover the root words in these worksheets.
Gain familiarity with verbs as root words and changing their forms to singular, past, or progressive by adding the suffixes -s, -ed, and -ing.
Spot and underline the affix at the beginning or the end of the word to identify the root in these root words worksheets.
Use this printable chart containing explanations to get acquainted with the strategy to add affixes to the roots to form new words.
Identifying Words with Affixes
Children need to recognize modified words by spotting affixes within a group of words and underlining words with affixes in contextual sentences.
Practice identifying the base or root word within each larger word that contains a prefix or suffix. Locate the root words in each word search grid in these worksheets.
Expand the pool of words that children know by engaging them in this set of root word worksheets, where they color and create new words from the given roots.
Matching Greek and Latin and Greek Roots
Draw lines to match the Greek and Latin root words with their meanings on one side and examples on the other in these worksheets.
Forming New Words with Affixes
The strategy of using the root word as a scaffold to build new words by adding affixes will immensely help students in expanding their vocabulary.
Cut the prefixes, roots, and suffixes, combine the segments, and glue them to derive new, correct words in these worksheets.
This exercise helps students form new words by adding prefixes, suffixes, or both to root words, enhancing their understanding of word structure.
Identifying Roots and Meanings of Derived Words
Recognize base words and understand how their meaning changes in words derived by adding prefixes and suffixes in these PDF worksheets.
The multiple-choice quiz serves as a test to determine if children can identify the correct prefixes, suffixes, and root words.
Practice dissecting words in these worksheets into their prefixes, root words, and suffixes to figure out their structure and meaning.
Completing Sentences Using Affixes
Complete sentences by adding the appropriate affix to root words in the parentheses, helping them understand how word parts modify meaning in context.
