Prefix Meanings Practice

2nd Grade ELAVocabulary3 pages

About this worksheet

Four prefix words each get a four-part box on this 2nd grade page: rebuild, unhappy, preheat and disobey. The rebuild box is a worked example, with a definition, a sentence about rebuilding a block tower and non-examples such as smash. Students complete the other three by writing a definition, a sentence and opposite words, and by drawing the word. It practices Common Core L.2.4b, although pre- and dis- go past the un- and re- examples in the standard. The answer key gives models such as preheating the oven for pizza.

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Curriculum objectives covered

L.2.4b

โ€œDetermine the meaning of the new word formed when a known prefix is added to a known word (e.g., happy/unhappy, tell/retell).โ€

Each box asks students to work out the new word from a known word and its prefix: re + build, un + happy, pre + heat and dis + obey.

What's inside this worksheet

rebuild (Worked Example)

A filled-in box: to build something again, a sentence about a dog knocking down a block tower, and non-examples break, destroy, smash and take apart.

unhappy

Empty boxes for a definition, a sentence, non-examples and a drawing, with a hint to think about what the prefix means.

preheat

The same four boxes for preheat, the first word with pre-.

disobey

The same four boxes for disobey, the only word with dis-.

Answer key

Model definitions, sentences, drawing ideas and opposites for unhappy, preheat and disobey, such as joyful and glad for unhappy.

How teachers use it

Walk through rebuild

Go over the worked example together before students start. The non-examples box confuses some students, so point out that it lists opposites.

Teach pre- and dis-

Pre- and dis- are newer for most 2nd graders. Give their meanings, before and not, ahead of the preheat and disobey boxes.

Vocabulary notebook

Cut the four boxes apart and glue them into word notebooks. Students add a new prefix word each week in the same layout.

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