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4th GRADE
A solid foundation in spelling not only prepares fourth-graders for academic success—
it makes them stronger readers. The teacher-reviewed, curriculum-based activities and
exercises in this workbook will help your children catch up, keep up, and get ahead.

SPELLING
Best of all, they’ll have lots of fun doing it! Some of the great features you’ll find inside
are:

WORD SEARCH
Fun games help kids create new words by adding prefixes and then finding those
words in a word search.

SPELLING SUCCESS
SPLIT IT!
Fill-in-the-blank exercises teach word roots by breaking down words into syllables.

ALTERNATE ENDINGS
SUCCESS
Charts and activities show how adding suffixes can create new words.

CRISS CROSS A guide to buildingg better

Crossword puzzles review topics such as homophones (ie: 5. Down: to welcome or Spelling skills based on Sylvan’s
receive Answer: accept).
proven techniques foror success
Plus!
CHECK IT! STRIPS
Reinforce concepts and build confidence as kids check their own work.

Give your child’s grades and confidence a boost with 4th Grade Spelling Success.

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2 MI L L I O N I N D I V I D U A L S U C C E S S STO R I E S ( a n d C O U
NTING!)
4 GRADE

4th GRADE
A solid foundation in spelling not only prepares fourth-graders for academic success—
it makes them stronger readers. The teacher-reviewed, curriculum-based activities and
exercises in this workbook will help your children catch up, keep up, and get ahead.

SPELLING
Best of all, they’ll have lots of fun doing it! Some of the great features you’ll find inside
are:

WORD SEARCH
Fun games help kids create new words by adding prefixes and then finding those
words in a word search.

SPELLING SUCCESS
SPLIT IT!
Fill-in-the-blank exercises teach word roots by breaking down words into syllables.

ALTERNATE ENDINGS
SUCCESS
Charts and activities show how adding suffixes can create new words.

CRISS CROSS A guide to buildingg better

Crossword puzzles review topics such as homophones (ie: 5. Down: to welcome or Spelling skills based on Sylvan’s
receive Answer: accept).
proven techniques foror success
Plus!
CHECK IT! STRIPS
Reinforce concepts and build confidence as kids check their own work.

Give your child’s grades and confidence a boost with 4th Grade Spelling Success.

SYLVAN LEARNING has been the premier provider of tutoring services in North America for ACTIVITIES, EXER
30 years. With over 1,100 learning centers in the U.S. and Canada, Sylvan has helped CI SES,
millions of children in grades pre-K through 12 realize their full potential.
AND
TIP
Sylvan provides individualized tutoring in its centers, at home, and online S T
O
in subjects including reading, math, writing, and study skills. Visit www. HE
educate.com to learn more. LP
CA
TC
H U D
P, K H EA
EEP U A
P, A N D G E T

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 Contents
1 Prefixes 1 11 What’s a Root? 69
2 NOT Prefixes 7 12 More about Roots 75
3 More Prefixes 13 13 Even More Roots! 81
4 Prefixes Everywhere! 19 14 Roots: The Final Chapter 87
5 Multiprefixed! 25 Review 93
Review 31 15 Homophones 97
6 Meet the Suffixes 35 16 Harder Homophones 103
7 Total Suffixment! 41 17 Word Challenge 109
8 Is It Suffixable? 47 Review 115
9 Highly Suffixous 53 i Spelling Words Index 119
10 The Last Suffixes 59
Review 65

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 Checking your answers is part of the learning.
Each section of the workbook begins with an easy-to-use Check It! strip.
1. Before beginning the activities, cut out the Check It! strip.
2. As you complete the activities on each page, check your answers.
3. If you find an error, you can correct it yourself.

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 Prefixes

Keywords
1
A PREFIX is one or more syllables that contain meaning added to
the beginning of a word. Here are three that should look familiar: 3Check It!
“Pro-” means forward, positive, or supporting. Page 1
“Con-” or “com-” means with or together.
Keywords
“Re-” means again. 1. communicate
2. complaining

READ the paragraph. The words in bold are your keywords. 3.

4.
confused
constantly
5. process
6. progress
7. project
8. propose
9. rearranging
My friends and I started a project to raise money to send to 10. relief
11. repeat

Africa. We were confused about the process of fundraising, 12. respect

so we had a meeting. It was hard to communicate or Page 2

propose any ideas because we all talked at once. We had Split It!


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rearranging all our plans. It was a relief when she left for

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ballet class. After that, we made lots of progress and had

Page 3
great ideas! Criss Cross
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1. progress
3. process
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2. rearranging
4. complaining
5. confused
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7. repeat

2. 8.
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3. 9.
Word Blocks
4. 10. 1. represent
2. produce
3. reminding
4. renew
5. 11. 5. profit
6. competing
7. pronounce
6. 12. 8. construct

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 Prefixes

Split It!
SPLIT these keywords into syllables, using dots to mark the breaks.
3 Check It! HINT: A prefix is usually its own syllable. Also, when a syllable ends in a
Page 5 LONG vowel sound, it usually ends with a vowel, like this: patper.

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Criss Cross
1
FILL IN the grid by answering the clues with keywords.

ACROSS DOWN
1. Improvement 2. Putting things in a different order
3. Method or system 4. Whining

8. Suggest an idea 5. Puzzled

6. Something that never stops is done…
7. To say again

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 Prefixes

Word Blocks
FILL IN the blanks with “com” or “con,” “re,” or “pro” to make the correct word. Then FILL IN the
word blocks with words of the same shape.
Example: That show is a repeat. I’ve seen it before!

I went to the library to new the books I haven’t finished yet.

The candy costs us $1 and we sell it for $2. That’s a dollar fit!

My art class is working together to struct a tower out of toothpicks.

How do you nounce the word anemone?

We sent Jeremiah to the coach so he could present the team.

With a little help, I can duce ten chocolate cream pies a day!

Our tennis team is peting in a major tournament.

Thanks for minding me about the sneaker sale!

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Word Search
1
FILL IN the blanks with “com” or “con,” “re,” or “pro” to make the correct word. Then CIRCLE the
words in the word grid. Words go down and across, not diagonally or backwards.
Example: It’s a relief to drop my heavy backpack!

1. I broke Mrs. Arora’s window and had to pay to get it paired.

2. All the band members have their names listed in the gram.

3. That house isn’t made of brick. It’s made of crete blocks.

4. It’s hard to pare Superman with Batman. They’re very different.

5. My brother and I are staging a test against broccoli. Join us!

6. The YMCA will vide towels if you want to swim.

7. Mickey won the burping test again. He’s the best burper in town.

8. My sister is in love with her college history fessor. Yuck!

9. It took me two weeks to cover from the flu.

10. My parents are trying to vince me to clean the garage. Yeah, right.

W P M C Z R K P P E R
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N G R P O I N C T E A
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Match Up
Here are some words that share the same ROOT, or body, but have different prefixes. MATCH the
word on the left with the definition on the right. WRITE the letter of the answer in the blank.
Example: composition putting things (like words) together in a certain way

1. reposition a. an agreement between people

2. retest b. to test again

3. protest c. to take back

4. contest d. make longer, draw out

5. confuse e. to put in a different place

6. refuse f. a competition

7. contract g. to disagree

8. retract h. garbage (or to say no)

9. protract i. to puzzle or cause doubt

3Check It!
Cut out the Check It! section on page 1, and see if you got the answers right.

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