Word Not Found in the Dictionary? What Do You Do?
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 word is in the dictionary (think of words like reconstitute and uncivilized). This happens even when students have access to an online dictionary.
At Beyond Words Learning, we offer a lesson that 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.
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