4th grade Texas syntax - prefix, suffix, and roots

A suffix is a word part attached to:

• The beginning of a root word
• The middle of a root word
• The end of a root word
• a root word

Tags

TEKS.MATH.3.3C

TEKS.ELA.3.2A.VI

TEKS.ELA.4.2A.IV

TEKS.ELA.4.2A.V

TEKS.ELA.3.2A.V

A prefix is a word part attached to:

• the beginning of a root word
• the middle of a root word
• the end of a root word
• the end of the alphabet

Tags

TEKS.ELA.4.2B.VI

TEKS.ELA.4.2B.V

TEKS.ELA.3.2A.V

TEKS.ELA.3.2BVI

TEKS.ELA.4.2A.IV

Fill in the blank: 
The divers ___merged themselves under water. 

• sub-
• re-
• pre-
• -ing

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.RF.3.3A

By midmorning I'm already hungry for lunch. The prefix mid means...

• Early
• Middle
• Under, below

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.RF.3.3A

Knowing the meaning of the prefix MIS- helps you know that MISDIRECT means:

• to direct wrongly

• the most direct

• someone who directs

• to direct before

Tags

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.L.3.4B

The food was overcooked. In this sentence overcooked means to ______.

• Cook too much

• Cook too little

• Cook on the top rack of the oven

• Cook it before

Tags

CCSS.L.4.4A

CCSS.RI.4.4

The gopher lives underground. In this sentence the prefix under helps the read to understand that the gopher is _______ the ground.

• beside

• above

• below

• around

When an author foreshadows an event, he or she is hinting to the reading about events _______ they happen.

• before

• after

• whenever

• because

loveable -

• the state of being loved

• the process of being loved

• not capable of being loved

• capable of being loved

magnetic -

• having characteristics of a magnet

• not capable of being a magnet

• process of becoming a magnet

• a piece of plastic