Three short vocabulary tasks fill this 3-page 3rd grade review. Students add un-, re-, or pre- to build, happy, heat, and wrap to match a meaning. They use sentence clues to define frigid and illuminate. Then they put three sets of words in order from weakest to strongest, such as whisper, talk, and shout. It connects to L.3.4.a and L.3.4.b. An answers page gives rebuild, unhappy, preheat, and rewrap, both letters, and each word order.
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).”
Prefix Power, where students add un-, re-, and pre- to known words and match each new word to its meaning.
L.3.4.a
“Use sentence-level context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.”
Context Clue Detective, which asks students to use the rest of the sentence to define frigid and illuminate.
A box defines un- (not), re- (again), and pre- (before). Students write the new word for "To build again," "Not happy," "To heat before," and "To wrap again."
Two multiple-choice items. A thick winter coat and warm gloves point to the meaning of frigid, and turning on a tall lamp points to illuminate.
Students number three groups from 1 (weakest or smallest) to 3 (strongest or biggest): gigantic, big, huge; shout, whisper, talk; and starving, hungry, full.
Station rotation
Each task takes about five minutes, so the sheet splits across three stations. Put a dictionary at the Context Clue Detective station for checking.
Think-aloud
Model question 1 by reading the whole sentence and underlining coat and gloves. Students then do question 2 alone and underline the clue they used.
Discussion starter
The starving, hungry, full row leads to good arguments, since full is the opposite of hungry more than a weaker form of it. The answers page lists full, hungry, starving, so let students defend their order before you share it.
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