Lesson One – Prefixes and Roots

This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to play games to identify and match a range of different prefixes with their correct roots to build a selection of words that can be used to describe animals.
The class can practise using some of the prefixed words in a range of different sentences to describe a specific class of animal that lives in a habitat around the world.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to play games to identify and match a range of different prefixes with their correct roots to build a selection of words that can be used to describe animals
Activities in this teaching pack include differentiated worksheets to play games to identify and match a range of different prefixes with their correct word roots before using some of the prefixed words to describe animals living in habitats around the world.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to identify and match a range of different prefixes with their correct word roots that can be used to describe specific classes of animals.
This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to explore and record the structure of alphabetically ordered texts using encyclopaedia entries about different animals. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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