Friday, February 4, 2011

Using Prefixes

Some of the fourth and fifth graders at Prairieview are reviewing prefixes as a strategy to discover meanings of unfamiliar words. We are learning these prefixes:

Prefixes
Prefix

ir, il, im, in, un means not
aqua, means water
uni means one
bi means two
tri means three
pre means before
post means after
multi means many
co, con, com means with, together
inter means between
re means again
geo means earth, land
sub means below
dis means opposite
trans means across
mis means wrong