Year 6 · English
Root word awareness in Year 6 English
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Focus on root words prefixes and suffixes. Open support for “Know Your Number Prefixes”, then explain the idea in your own words.
Year 6 learners practise root words prefixes and suffixes.
The activities include Know Your Number Prefixes, Know Your Prefixes: aero-, Know Your Prefixes: auto-, bi-, circum-, tele- and trans-, and related practice. The checked support below includes teaching, lesson, video, practice. Open a resource in its provider's website and choose the format that best helps the learner explain the idea independently.
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- Know Your Number Prefixes — support from Oak National Academy
- Know Your Prefixes: aero- — support from Oak National Academy
- Know Your Prefixes: auto-, bi-, circum-, tele- and trans- — support from Oak National Academy
- Know Your Roots: 'cred' — support from Robinson Elementary Plant City
- Know Your Roots: 'hydro' — support from Robinson Elementary Plant City
- Know Your Roots: 'port' — support from Twinkl
- Know Your Roots: 'scribe' and 'script' — support from Twinkl
- Know Your Roots: 'tele' and 'scope' — support from Twinkl
- Know Your Suffixes: -graph or -graphy — support from Twinkl
- Practise Spelling Words with Suffixes — support from Oak National Academy
- Practise Spelling Words with a Range of Suffixes — support from Oak National Academy
- Practise Spelling Words Containing the Long 'e' Sound — support from Rocket Spelling
- Use and Spell Tricky Words — support from Oak National Academy
- Use and Understand a Range of Words — support from Twinkl
- Use Different Suffixes in Spelling — support from Oak National Academy
- Use Homophones that are Easily Confused — support from Twinkl
- Use Hyphens Correctly — support from Oak National Academy
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Using Hyphens To Join Prefixes To Root Words
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Oak: Spelling Words With The Prefixes Bi Trans Tele And Circum
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Root CRED: believe, trust and related words
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Root HYDR: water, hydro and hydra word families
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What Is a Word Family? | KS2 English Concept Video
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Using Suffixes | KS2 English Concept Video
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Spelling Words With The Suffixes Ant And Ance
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Oak: Writing The Conclusion Of A Non Chronological Report About Pandas
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Using a Thesaurus to Improve Your Writing: Video Lesson
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Synonyms, Antonyms, Prepositions and Adverbs
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Homophones and Near Homophones Y5/Y6 Spelling Practice | KS2 English Concept Video
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Oak: Hyphens And Ellipsis
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Oak: Letter strings, etymology and curriculum words
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BBC Bitesize: Prefixes and suffixes
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Twinkl: PlanIt Y6 Term 1B W6: Prefixes micro- and mini- Spelling Pack
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EducationCity Year 6 Prefixes: bi-, aqua-, aero- and audi-
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National Literacy Strategy Spelling Bank — auto-, bi-, trans-, tele- and circum-
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Cred: belief and trust in credit and incredulous
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Hydro and hydr: water root and word meanings
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Grade 5 Root Words: port and scrib/script
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KS2 Word Families Lesson Pack
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KS2 Level 5 Decoders Week 7: 'y' saying /ee/
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Where in the World Is That Word From? Etymology PowerPoint
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Oak lesson slides: Forming Plural Nouns Using The Suffix Es And Ves
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Primary Dictionary Skills — Prefixes (2), Activity 19
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Prefixes and Suffixes Activity Mat (Ages 9 - 11)
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Y Endings as a Long E Sound
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Prefixes Denoting Numbers practice worksheets
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Cred and credible: Worksheet 17 in the vocabulary preview
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Hydros/hydro word building and sentence practice
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Root Word Ladder: Port
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Greek and Latin Root Words: Port and Scribe
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Grade 5 Greek roots spelling review: tele-, scope, photo-, graph and -graphy
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Greek and Latin Root Words: Graph and Meter
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Statutory Spelling List Year 5 and Year 6 Activity Book
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KS2 Dictionary Skills Worksheet
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Upper KS2 Thesaurus Challenge Worksheet
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Oak worksheet: Forming Plural Nouns Using The Suffix Es And Ves
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Oak worksheet: Hyphens And Ellipsis
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