Hi, I'm Dorothy! My friends and I are on an adventure. We are looking for root words, prefixes, and suffixes while we are off to see the Wizard. Would you like to join us? Great! Come along! We are off to find root words, prefixes, and suffixes! Oh my!

You may be wondering, what are root words, prefixes, and suffixes. Well, a root word is the most basic form of a word. Root words could be words like make, smile, or use.

Do you see any root words hidden on our path to see the Wizard?

happy

act

Loved

Great Job! We found loved, act, and happy! But what happens when we add a word to the beginning of a root word? Oh that's right! A word added to the beginning of a root word is called a prefix. Some common prefixes are re, un, pre, mis, and non.

Meaning of Common Prefixes:

re = do again

un = not

pre = before

mis = wrong

non = not

Do you see any prefixes hidden on our path?

re

un

We found the prefixes re and un. Did you find those too? Let's add them to our root words, that we found and make some new words and find out what they mean!

un love = unloved - not loved

re act = react - to act again

un happy = unhappy - not happy