Morphology Warmups Set 5: Using Prefixes - SOR Aligned with Digital

Introduce your students to a variety of prefixes in bite-sized instructional timeframes using these morphology warmups that focus on prefixes.

About the Prefix Warmups

This set of morphology warmups focuses on introducing a variety of prefixes to your students. There are 20 warmups in all. A complete list of prefixes and words included can be found on page 3 of the PDF.

Each warmup presents:

• A prefix
• Meaning of the prefix
• Three 4th and 5th grade-level words that use the prefix with the meaning of the words (which connects to the meaning of the prefix)
• Version 1 asks the students to choose one of the words to use in a sentence.
• Version 2 includes three sentences (one for each word). The students will read the sentences and determine which word best completes each sentence.

The purpose of these morphology warmups is to:

• introduce and explicitly teach a variety of prefixes
• expose students to grade level words that use a variety of prefixes
• provide practice opportunities for using and reading words that contain prefixes

Example Warmup Content:

Prefix: mis-

Meaning: wrong, bad

• misbehave - behave badly
• misplace - put in the wrong or incorrect spot or place
• misinform - give false or wrong information or details

1. I am always careful not to _____________ my cell phone, but sometimes I still lose it.
2. The reporter realized that she was ______________ed and quickly removed the incorrect details from the new report.
3. If the students _________________ for the substitute teacher, they will lose class points.

Using the Reading Warmups

You can use these during a whole group instruction using the digital version. The digital option contains the same content and all three versions, but they have been redesigned to work in Google Slides.

The printable reading warmups could be used as small group reading warmups.

Full List of Prefixes Included:

• un-
• re-
• pre-
• dis-
• in-
• il-, im-, ir-
• in-
• non-
• inter-
• trans-
• mid-
• over-
• under-
• sub-
• fore-
• anti-
• semi-
• ex-
• super-
• mis-

Example Words:

• unzipped, uncommon, unwanted
• rejoined, repay, reform
• disapproved, disloyal, disagreeable
• inscribe, invasion, injection
• nonhuman, nonverbal, nonrecyclable
• subway, subzero, substructure

Looking for more reading warmups aligned with the Science of Reading?

• Morphology Warmups BUNDLE
• Morphology Warmups Set 1: Reading Base Word Families
• Morphology Warmups Set 2: Base Word Creations
• Morphology Warmups Set 3: Add an Affix
• Morphology Warmups Set 4: Match the Meanings - Focus on Affixes
• Morphology Warmups Set 5: Prefix Warmups
• Morphology Warmups Set 6: Suffix Warmups
• Morphology Warmups Set 7: Root Word Families
• Morphology Warmups Set 8: Using Roots, Affixes, and Context to Define Words
• Morphology Warmups Set 9: Two Truths and a Lie
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