English Unit: Fabulous Affixes
This unit plan is a comprehensive resource for teaching and assessing morphemic awareness in your Year 2 classroom. Students will build word families using prefixes and suffixes, explore base words and how their meaning changes. The unit includes a presentation, games, worksheets, classroom display, quiz and assessment task. The detailed and engaging unit plan requires minimal preparation time and is designed to be progressive and engaging for your class.
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Learning goals
- We are learning to use prefixes and suffixes to build morphemic word families.
- We are learning to use prefixes and suffixes to build morphemic word families.
Curriculum alignment
EN1-5A
old
Uses a variety of strategies, including knowledge of sight words and letter–sound correspondences, to spell familiar words
EN1-VOCAB-01
new
Understands and effectively uses Tier 1, taught Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary to extend and elaborate ideas
EN1-PHOKW-01
new
Uses initial and extended phonics, including vowel digraphs, trigraphs to decode and encode words when reading and creating texts
EN1-RECOM-01
new
Comprehends independently read texts that require sustained reading by activating background and word knowledge, connecting and understanding sentences and whole text, and monitoring for meaning
EN1-SPELL-01
new
Applies phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies when spelling words in a range of writing contexts
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.
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