Key Stage Two : English : Year Three Planning : Story Places : Lesson One – Word Building

This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise adding the prefixes dis and mis to a selection of word roots to build a range of different words. The class can use the created words with each prefix to describe events that might happen in a story setting.
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Learning Objectives
Practise adding the prefixes dis and mis to word roots. Predicting what might happen from details stated and implied.
Learning Outcomes
I can explain how words change their spelling and meaning when adding the prefixes dis and mis. I can say how a story might develop based on reading of a text.

Word Building
Teaching sequence to help the children practise adding the prefixes dis and mis to a selection of word roots to build a range of different words

Prefix Matching Game
Activity to help the children play a game to identify a selection of word roots that can be changed by the addition of the prefixes mis and dis

Prefix Word Building (support)
Activity cards to help the children to select and match different words that can be changed by the addition of the prefixes mis and dis

Word Building
Interactive activity to help the children practise adding the prefixes dis and mis to a selection of word roots to build a range of different words
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to practise adding the prefixes dis and mis to a selection of word roots to build a range of different words
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