Prefix and Suffix Word Sort

2nd Grade ELAPhonics and Fluency3 pages

About this worksheet

Word Factory robots have dropped their word blocks, and 2nd grade students put 16 words back into four bins: un-, re-, -ful and -ly. The bank includes untie, replay, thankful and slowly, and the directions ask students to read each word aloud by splitting off its base. Two short questions follow. One asks which word was hardest to place, and the other asks for a new word of their own in each bin. Common Core RF.2.3d is the target, and the answer key suggests extra words like reread and gladly.

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Curriculum objectives covered

RF.2.3d

โ€œDecode words with common prefixes and suffixes.โ€

Students decode all 16 bank words by their prefix or suffix to sort them, then build four new words of their own in question 3.

What's inside this worksheet

Word Bank

Sixteen words in a 4 by 4 grid, four for each chunk, from unzip and remake to careful and loudly.

Sorting table

Question 1 is a four-column table headed Prefix un-, Prefix re-, Suffix -ful and Suffix -ly, with space under each.

Think About It

Question 2 asks which word was hardest to place and why. Question 3 asks students to write one new word for each of the four categories.

Answer key

The completed table, a sample reason about finding the base word in safely, and example words such as unkind, rewrite, joyful and softly.

How teachers use it

Cut and sort

Copy the word bank onto card stock and cut it apart. Students sort the cards on their desks first, then copy the result into the table.

Model the split

Show loudly as loud plus ly before students start. Safely and careful are where students lose the base word, so point to safe and care.

Word hunt at home

Send question 3 home as a word hunt. Students find one un-, re-, -ful and -ly word in a book and bring it back to share.

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