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Help students improve their mastery of the English language and acquire the keys for understanding thousands of words by studying Greek and Latin prefixes, root words and suffixes. This second in a two-book series contains three sections (prefixes, root words and suffixes), but each section has the same format. Each of the lessons include: 2 to 4 prefixes, suffixes, or root words along with meanings and sample words, 10 new vocabulary words that use these word parts, definitions and sample sentences for each new word, and a one-page worksheet that presents a variety of ways to apply knowledge and expand understanding of the definitions and uses of the word parts.

In addition to the extensive student section, the book includes considerable reference material to help the instructor. This includes: a comprehensive listing of prefixes, root words and suffixes, their meanings and sample wordsextra words to use with each lesson, open-ended worksheets that can be used with any lesson, and additional lesson ideas to supplement your word study.

This is one of the most complete, usable presentations of vocabulary development using word parts you will find. A knowledge of word parts gives students a head start on decoding words in reading and testing situations. A red hot vocabulary program!

For younger students, use Red Hot Root Words, book 1.

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vocabulary
excellent book.great for grades 5 and higher.helps in teaching the the latin and greek roots.students really start to understand 'how words came to be.'book 1 is also recommended.

Red Hot Root Words
Great resource to increase your child's vocabulary. Nicely organized workbook, challenging; the prefect way to supplement my kids school work. My fifth grader enjoys spelling much more -- by using his knowledge of root words as clues to the meaning of words! ... Read more

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This updated version of the 2000 original is still the only complete resource on the market for finding word parts needed to express a concept. Aside from catering to those who wish to expand their vocabulary, the purpose of this dictionary is to provide convenient word parts to those who may be interested in inventing or deciphering words bearing an established and embedded meaning. Like the first edition, this work is split into three parts presenting the prefixes, suffixes, combining forms, and roots that fit together to form words in English. Part I, the Dictionary proper, provides an alphabetical listing of nearly 4,700 word parts, each entry including a brief definition and two examples of words using that unit. This section benefits from several additions, the most notable of which are embedded etymologies for each entry. Part II, the Finder, is a reverse dictionary of word parts allowing users to start with a meaning or concept and then find word parts which express that meaning. Still the only reverse dictionary of its kind, Part II is updated with over 1,000 new search terms. Part III collects word parts in another reverse dictionary under 18 convenient categories. Each pre-existing category has been expanded when possible, and three entirely new categories have also been added (Eating, Experts, and Measurement Science). ... Read more

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"a treasure trove...recommended"--Library Journal

"unique...clear and well executed"--Choice

"a great tool...the 2d edition of the book only improves upon the 1st edition...comprehensive yet very efficient"--ARBA

"a unique reference...fascinating"--Reference & Research Book News

"valuable...impressive" --[...]

"a straightforward, well-assembled, and magnificent reference book...marvellous...thorough...a delight to use...recommended"--Reference Reviews

"a chrestocognigraphic experience"--C&RL News

"useful"--World Wide Words

"unique"--Redefined

"chock full of word parts...recommend[ed]"--Take Our Word For It.] ... Read more

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Into About Fifty-Five Hundred Common Derivative Words In English, With A Brief History Of The English Language. ... Read more

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An active and innovative approach to making words that teachers and their students have grown to love is finally here!

Based on its highly successful parent text, Phonics They Use, this new grade-level series Making Words offers teachers a fresh multi-level activity and lesson series written for the kindergarten through fifth grade classroom. Pat Cunningham and Dottie Hall  present classroom teachers with effective tools for strengthening phonics and spelling skills that encourage students to move beyond learning and into a world of word discovery. Each research-based volume includes a wealth of friendly, hands-on, manipulative activities that guide teachers in teaching the development of words--from phonemic awareness to spelling.

In Making Words Third Grade, Pat and Dottie introduce third grade teachers to 70 lessons that teach the homophones, spelling changes, prefixes and suffixes that most third grade curriculums cover. Each Making Words activity contains rhyming words which help children review the more complex vowel patterns. Including homophones, prefixes, suffixes, spelling changes, and complex rhyming patterns allowing third graders at all levels to make progress in their spelling and decoding ability.   

Making Words Third Grade is the best resource you can have on hand for motivating your students to learn words!   

• Features 70 fun and interactive lessons for building rhyming and decoding skills.
• Presents a concise method for involving students in the process of identifying homophones, prefixes, and suffixes and how these change the meanings of words in sentences.
• Promotes student awareness of similarities in words that helps develop writing skills.
• Includes reproducible letter tiles, record sheets for each lesson, and take-home sheets to copy, cut, and/or laminate.
• Highlights a list of useful children's books to extend the Making Words lesson.

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Another One?
Yes! Another one!I have taught first, second, and now next year third grade and every time I change grades I make sure I have a Making Words for that level.My kids love to do these activites.I give them a 2 inch wide strip of paper and they fold it into 8 squares.They write one letter from the activity in each square, tear them apart, and we are ready to go.The activites are easy, fun, and an excellent way to help those kids that need to touch and manipulate letters to make words...hence the title!!These books are a valuable aid to my curriculum.

Planning To Learn
The authors have taken the work out of lesson plans for vocabulary building and spelling. Home schoolers especially should find the book a real time-saver in preparation with lots of drills for one-on-one sessions with your young pupil. ... Read more

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If you were a suffix, you would always be at the end of a word. You could make ""tall"" become the TALLEST. You could make ""end"" become ENDLESS. What else could you do if you were a suffix? ... Read more

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The national standards require that sutdents beginning at 4th grade use their knowledge of prefixes and suffixes to determine the meaning of words. Each of the 30 units in this book includes a word list, vocabulary sort words, review game cards, and a vocabulary quiz. Students will learn over 300 vocabulary words and become more comfortable "disecting" words and defining their parts. ... Read more

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Awesome for Word Study
I bought this to help me with word study in my classroom.I teach 6th grade reading and English to students who are struggling in those areas.Part of our IIP at school is to teach about 10 different prefixes per grade level.I actually needed to purchase this green book and the red prefix book, to get all the prefixes I needed.Anyways, the purchase has been well worth it.It has about 5 actvities/worksheets per prefix, plus a quiz.Usually when I buy books like this I end up modifying everything, but not this time.I really like what is in here.Well worth the money, saves me time from creating the material myself and the kids have learned so much!They are applying what was learned in previous lessons to new lessons. These series of books were actually recommended to me by another teacher in my district.She loves them too.

Fabulous alternative for your greatest spellers
I am using this for those students in my class who breeze through the Language Arts spelling words every week.I give a pretest on Monday.If a student misses fewer than five out of twenty of the spelling words, they study these vocabulary words instead.The book is organized wonderfully well, so that you can assign one prefix or suffix each week.The author gives you a list of ten words with the pre- or suffix (for visual learners), a page with the wordsand meanings mixed up so they have to cut it apart and match them up again (for your tactile learners) and then a multiple choice test where the students must determine which word fits into the sentence (very difficult - student needs to apply their knowledge and comprehension of the word to determine in which sentence the word would work.)I highly recommend this book for grades 4 through 6 - it is a challenge for my highest students! Mainstream students in higher grades (7 -8) would still find it challenging.

Great for Special Ed.
This presents the prefixes and suffixes into small chunks so as to not overwhelm the students.Gives a great multiple choice practice, as well as many examples. ... Read more

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If you were a prefix, you would always be at the beginning of a word. You could make ""ordinary"" EXTRAORDINARY or ""lucky"" UNLUCKY. What else could you do if you were a prefix? ... Read more

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Excellent for word study
I bought this to help me with word study in my classroom.I teach 6th grade reading and English to students who are struggling in those areas.Part of our IIP at school is to teach about 10 different prefixes per grade level.I actually needed to purchase this red book and the green book, to get all the prefixes I needed.Anyways, the purchase has been well worth it.It has about 5 actvities/worksheets per prefix, plus a quiz.Usually when I buy books like this I end up modifying everything, but not this time.I really like what is in here.Well worth the money, saves me time from creating the material myself and the kids have learned so much!They are applying what was learned in previous lessons to new lessons. These series of books were actually recommended to me by another teacher in my district.She loves them too.

Great variety of activities
I like the first book of the set, "Prefixes and Suffixes."This version provides a good variety of ways to reinforce the more difficult prefixes and suffixes.Simple to implement activities help students to remember the prefixes and suffixes. ... Read more

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A comprehensive, easy-to-use guide to the most common healthcare abbreviations, acronyms, symbols, and other such "shortcuts" encountered every day. Includes over 22,000 abbreviations and acronyms, 250 symbols, 1,100 prefixes and suffixes, 44,000 total entries and definitions, and an index of managed care abbreviations. An appendix covers the Greek alphabet, roman numerals, and metric units. ... Read more

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An active and innovative approach to making words that teachers and their students have grown to love is finally here!

Based on its highly successful parent text, Phonics They Use, this new grade-level series Making Words offers teachers a fresh multi-level activity and lesson series written for the kindergarten through fifth grade classroom. Pat Cunningham and Dottie Hall  present classroom teachers with effective tools for strengthening phonics and spelling skills that encourage students to move beyond learning and into a world of word discovery. Each research-based volume includes a wealth of friendly, hands-on, manipulative activities that guide teachers in teaching the development of words--from phonemic awareness to spelling.

In Making Words Fourth Grade, Pat and Dottie introduce fourth grade teachers to 50 lessons that teach all the prefixes, suffixes, and root skills included in most fourth grade curriculums. Each Making Words activity leads children through a systematic and sequential spelling curriculum. All lessons include practice with prefixes and suffixes as children stretch out words they are making and blend the letters to make new words. Because teaching children letter-sound relationships is easier than teaching children to actually use these letter-sound relationships, all lessons include a transfer step in which children apply the sounds they are learning to spelling new words. 

Making Words Fourth Grade is the best resource you can have on hand for motivating your students to learn words!  

• Features 50 fun and interactive lessons for building decoding and spelling skills.
• Presents a concise method for involving students in the process of identifying common contractions and compound words and more complex vowel patterns within words.
• Promotes student awareness of similarities in words that helps develop writing skills.
• Includes reproducible take-home record sheets to help students build their vocabularies.

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Making Words
Having used many of the Making Words books, I should have known what I'd get. However, I was disappointed that the words were chosen only because a prefix or suffix could be made from the letters. I had hoped for more teaching activities specifically for the structural skills. I also thought the price was exhorbitant for the amount of information. ... Read more

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Hands-on, minds-on, manipulative activities in which students learn todecode words and properly use common prefixes, suffixes, and spellingchanges. Includes 120 lessons, which teach the most common prefixes,suffixes, and spelling changes. Supports the Four-Blocks® Literacy Model.

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Kids love it!
I use this book with my special ed students during their Daily 5 mini lessons.The kids love to manipulate letters to go along with the book.They think of it as a "game".They definitely look forward to doing the activities.

Pat Cunningham does such a disservice to remedials!!!!
This book is a jumbled mess.I couldn't figure out the main focus in any of these lessons.They go from one concept to another over and over again in the same lesson.This might be ok for students who are not having difficulty reading, but unfortunately about 30-40% of our students need systematic, sequential phonology and morphology and this would be the last place to get it.Pat Cunningham does such a disservice toremedial students. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This book presents a compilation of terms frequently encountered in the vocabulary of medicine. You will find a dash (-) appended to indicate that this word is incomplete, and there is something which comes before the medical term or behind the medical term. The terms, in this work, provide a map for students to begin to understand a complex language as the various component of the words (roots, suffixes, prefixes) are strung together to form a complete word.. It is then that the student began to get a picture of the meaning of the word as the components began to fit together. Roots, Suffixes, Prefixes is provided as a reference for our Anatomy and Physiology students and Medical Assistants. It is as indispensable for nursing students and other students in the medical field. The book is compiled alphabetically for ease of access. Hats off to all students, especially the Medical Assistant students of American Commercial College, San Angelo, Texas. We appreciate hearing from you, as well as others, concerning your opinion regarding use of this book - suggestions and constructive criticisms needed. It is your feedback that provides the basic of each revision. Remember you are the reason why this work is effected, and it is you that underwrites future editions. ... Read more