Making Words Fifth Grade
Subtitle: 50 Hands-On Lessons for Teaching Prefixes, Suffixes, and Roots (Making Words Series)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon; Pearson/Allyn & Bacon
Published: April 14, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9780205581023
Subjects: Education; Education / Teaching; Professional Development; Education / Professional Development; Teaching Methods & Materials - Reading
Description: Teachers are introduced to lessons that cover key literacy skills included in most fifth-grade curricula. Each activity leads students through a systematic process for learning prefixes, suffixes, and roots and how these word parts go together to form related words. All lessons include practice on manipulating letters into complex letter combinations and sorting words according to the patterns. All lessons conclude with a tansfer step which helps students transfer what they have learned to reading and spelling new words.