Root Words & Inflections
Identify frequently occurring root words and their inflectional forms (e.g., look/looks/looked/looking), using affixes as clues to word meaning and understanding how suffixes create nouns and adjectives
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When your child sees words like "play," "plays," "played," and "playing," do they understand they all come from the same root word and can they use each form correctly?
Identify frequently occurring root words and their inflectional forms (e.g., look/looks/looked/looking), using affixes as clues to word meaning and understanding how suffixes create nouns and adjectives
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- Identify 'play' as the root in 'played', 'playing', 'player'
- Explain that '-ful' in 'careful' means 'full of care'
- Use '-ness' and '-er' to form nouns from root words: 'sad → sadness', 'teach → teacher'
“When your child sees words like "play," "plays," "played," and "playing," do they understand they all come from the same root word and can they use each form correctly?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Conceptual
- Subject
- English
- Domain
- Vocabulary
- Age range
- Ages 6–9
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