ACELA1472

Build morphemic word families using knowledge of prefixes and suffixes

Elaborations

• discussing how a prefix or suffix affects meaning, for example in the word ‘paint-er’ the suffix ‘er’ means ‘one who’, so a painter is ‘one who paints’ (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking)

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