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Here are the teacher pack items for Building Your Vocabulary:
Overview In this experience, students expand their knowledge of word roots, prefixes, and suffixes, then build and decode words using those elements. They also explore how knowledge of roots and affixes is a strategy for vocabulary comprehension. Then they combine the word elements and use their newly acquired words in sentences. Students will work in small groups in Scene 5. Objective Duration
A surprising number of English words are built from root words, to which we add parts called prefixes and suffixes. The more of these word parts you know, the more quickly your vocabulary expands. In this experience, you will learn how to build, decode, and use words to increase your vocabulary.
Objective
If you were to divide the word forefather up into two key parts, how would you do it? Write the parts below. Separate them with hyphens, like this: pre-view
Discuss student responses. Most students will recognize that the word is logically divided between fore and father. You might ask them why they chose to divide the word that way and whether they know anything about the parts.
Using the knowledge that the word part fore- means “before,” try to think what the word forewarn means? Write a sentence using the word forewarn.
Discuss that forewarn means to “warn before” or “warn ahead of time.” You may want to tell students that the word part fore- is called a prefix. They will learn more about prefixes and other word parts in the rest of the experience.
