ELA21.3.15a

English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 3

ELA21.3.15a

Identify meaningful parts of words (morphemes) and use them as clues to the meaning of unfamiliar words, including base words, roots, and frequently occurring affixes and inflections.

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Knowledge

  • Morphemes are the smallest unit in a word that carry meaning.
  • Morphemes can be used to determine meanings of words.
  • Affixes and inflections can be added to words to change their meaning.

Skills

  • Identify morphemes and use them as clues to determine word meaning, including affixes like -less, -ful, pro-, trans- and roots like aqua, cent, port, form, ject, spect, dict, tend, fer.

Understanding

  • Base words, roots, affixes, inflections and other morphemes can be used to help find the meaning of unfamiliar words.

Vocabulary

  • Meaningful parts of words
  • Morphemes
  • Clues
  • Unfamiliar words
  • Base words
  • Roots
  • Affixes
  • Inflections

COS Examples

Examples: affixes -less, -ful, pro-, trans- ; roots aqua, cent, port, form, ject, spect, dict, tend, fer

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