English Language Arts and Reading.5.3.C

The student is expected to

identify the meaning of and use words with affixes such as trans-, super-, -ive, and -logy and roots such as geo and photo; and

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Knowledge and Skills Statement

Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--vocabulary. The student uses newly acquired vocabulary expressively.

Provide the meaning study of for the affix -logy. Then have students determine the meaning of the following words:

  • Zoology (the study of animals)
  • Biology (the study of life)
  • Astrology (the study of the influence of stars on people)
  • Cardiology (the study of the heart)
  • Ecology (the study of environment)
  • Geology (the study of earth’s crust/rocks)
  • Climatology (the study of climate)
  • Audiology (the study of hearing)

 

Further Explanation

For this assessment, students should be able to identify the meaning of words with affixes. Students will use their understanding of commonly used affixes to determine the meaning of words they encounter.

Affixes are the word elements that can be added before (as a prefix) or after (as a suffix) a root word to change its meaning or function in a sentence. Students will use their understanding of commonly used affixes to determine the meaning of words they encounter in various forms of communication and when expressing their own ideas.
a grammatical unit from which other words are derived They cannot stand alone and must be attached to another morpheme to form a word (e.g. fer in refer, confer, defer); they are usually derived from another language.

Research

Yurtbasi, M. (2015). Building English Vocabulary through Roots, Prefixes and Suffixes. Global Journal of Foreign Language Teaching, 5(1), 44-51. Retrieved from https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED579889.pdf

Summary: The author discusses decoding words as a means to improve the students' reading, writing, speaking and listening skills. Decoding unfamiliar words an understanding of root words, affixes, and suffixes. The article includes a discussion on English words and Greek origins which have serve as the stem of many English works.