Prefixes and Context Clues Review
3rd grade vocabulary review: add un-, re-, and pre- to base words, use context clues for frigid and illuminate, and order words by shades of meaning.
3rd Grade Vocabulary Worksheets
L.3 vocabulary: determining the meaning of the new word formed when a known affix is added to a known word.
3rd Grade ELA6 worksheets
Vocabulary worksheets to download
Context Clues Fill-In-the-Blank
3rd grade context clues fill-in-the-blank: a mountain camping story with ten blanks for words like dusk, famished, and slumbered. Answer key.
Shades of Meaning Word Sort
3rd grade shades of meaning word sort: 15 words such as knew, suspected, adored, and furious sorted into certainty, affection, and anger. Answer key.
Prefixes and Suffixes: Build New Words
3rd grade prefixes and suffixes organizers: meaning, examples, trick words, and a drawing for un-, re-, dis-, -less, and -ful. Answer key included.
Literal and Nonliteral Meanings Match
3rd grade literal and nonliteral meanings match: idioms like cold feet and hit the hay, plus take steps and dry up in two senses. Answer key.
Time and Place Words Word Search
3rd grade time and place words word search: find above, beneath, meanwhile, until, and six more in a 12 by 12 grid. Answer key included.
Curriculum objectives covered
L.3.4.b
“Determine the meaning of the new word formed when a known affix is added to a known word (e.g., agreeable/disagreeable, comfortable/uncomfortable, care/careless, heat/preheat).”
L.3.4.a
“Use sentence-level context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.”
L.3.5.c
“Distinguish shades of meaning among related words that describe states of mind or degrees of certainty (e.g., knew, believed, suspected, heard, wondered).”
L.3.5.a
“Distinguish the literal and nonliteral meanings of words and phrases in context (e.g., take steps).”
L.3.6
“Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate conversational, general academic, and domain-specific words and phrases, including those that signal spatial and temporal relationships (e.g., After dinner that night we went looking for them).”
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