Word Not Found In The Dictionary? What Do You Do? – $2.00
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WHY THIS LESSON?
The issue is a challenge that many students often face when testing or just reading. The focus will be the practical situation of when a common word is preceded by a PREFIX.
Many teachers urge their students to look up a word in the dictionary if they do not understand it in a test question. The problem? Many students cannot find the word in the dictionary, because the word has a common prefix and only the root wordis in the dictionary (think of words like reconstitute and uncivilized). This happens even when students have access to an online dictionary.
This lesson focuses on a few of the most common prefixes in English and gives several examples of words that start with these prefixes. It walks the student through, step-by-step, in figuring out how to successfully define the word. The lesson finishes with a short assessment asking students to figure out the meaning of several words with common prefixes.