Grade 2 English Language Arts · Level 1, Decode, spell, and read Grade 2 text with increasing automaticity and self-correction.

Read Prefixes and Suffixes

Decode words that contain common prefixes and suffixes by separating meaningful word parts.

How the lesson starts: Read Prefixes and Suffixes

All aboard the word train!
Toot toot! Meet Nuri the raccoon. Nuri drives a word train. The base word is the engine. Cars can hook on the front or the back!
Engine, front, and back
The base word is the word you start with. A prefix hooks on the front. Un, tie. Untie! A suffix hooks on the back. Help, ful. Helpful!
Find each part
Nuri reads the word repaint. Is there a car on the front? Yes, re. So re is the prefix. Paint is the base word. Now slowly. Slow is the base word. L Y on the back is the suffix.