Prefix-Suffix Bingo

FOCUS
Prefixes and suffixes

re-

LEVEL
Advanced

SOFTWARE CONNECTION

act

Level 6 words with prefixes and suffixes

GROUPING
Whole class

SUPPLIES
Copies of Prefix-Suffix Bingo Activity Sheet A (1 per student), one copy of Prefix-Suffix Bingo
Activity Sheet B, shoebox (or similar container), pencils, dictionaries

ACTIVITY
1. First, cut apart the cards on Activity Sheet B. Put them in a shoebox or similar container.
2. As a class, review the meanings of root word, prefix, and suffix. Distribute Activity Sheet A
(the bingo board). Explain that the board contains prefixes and suffixes. Ask the students to
name sample words that contain the prefixes and suffixes, for example:

reuse
nonburnable
counterattack
disobey
interview
supermarket

enjoyable
vanity
effective
helpless
wickedness
employment

overactive
mistake
dehumidify
forehead
unlikely
autograph

electrical
biologist
deepest
faster
supervisor
happily

3. Tell students that they will be using the activity sheets to play Prefix-Suffix Bingo.
You will draw root words from the shoebox, one at a time.
Players should look on the activity sheet for a prefix or suffix that can be used with the
root word.
If the player finds an appropriate prefix or suffix on the activity sheet, the player can
write the word on the square. For example, if you call out the word act, a player might
write counteract on the counter- square or active on the -ive square.
The winner is the first player to complete a row of correctly spelled real words (horizon
tal, vertical, or diagonal). To verify the winner, have students use dictionaries to check
the spelling and authenticity of the words the winner wrote on the activity sheet.
4. Play several rounds, providing fresh activity sheets for each round. Encourage students to
try to write words they have not used in previous rounds.
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Prefix-Suffix Bingo
Activity Sheet A

re-

over-able

-al

mis-

counter-

-ity

-ist

de-est
fore-

-or

non-

FREE

-ive
dis-less

inter-

un-

-er

-ness

super-

auto-ment

-ly

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Prefix-Suffix Bingo
Activity Sheet B

act

sense

understand

appoint

brief

natural

arm

fair

run

mobile

section

man

allow

real

mature

front

certain

part

kind

even

culture

live

place

art

violent

grown

biography

fortune

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