Strengthen Vocabulary Skills through Prefix Activities 

Prepare to sweeten your vocabulary lessons with a new Google Slides Interactive Activity! This one’s all about prefixes; it will be a hit with your students!! 

This interactive Google Slides activity gives students plenty of opportunities to define and integrate prefixes into sentences while engaging them with a fun ice cream sundae theme!

Students will drag and drop or type the answer to match prefixes with their meanings, write words with prefixes, and transform incorrect phrases. 

Slides in this activity focus on the following prefixes:

• Mis-
• Bi-
• Pre-
• Un-
• Re-
• Dis-

This resource downloads as a Google Slides file. Be sure to use the resource in Edit mode to enable the draggable features.

Scaffolding + Extension Tips 

A team of dedicated, experienced educators created this resource to support your foundational language lessons. In addition to individual student work time, use these prefix activities to enhance learning through guided reading groups, whole-class lessons or remote learning assignments. 

Many learners find visual references helpful when trying to grasp and review concepts. To refresh their memories, provide students with learning tools like a prefix poster or classroom anchor chart. Additionally, students can work with a partner to complete the task.

Why not use this activity as a post-lesson assessment? Alternatively, you could use it before a test to give students extra practice. 

Easily Prepare This Prefix Lesson for Your Students

Use the Download button to access this resource. After downloading, you will need to make a copy of the resource to your personal drive.

This resource was created by Lindsey Phillips, a Teach Starter Collaborator.

More Prefixes Activities to Engage Your Students

Don’t leave without checking out these additional activities for teaching prefixes and suffixes to Year 3 students:

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