Teaching the Affix Tree - suffixes, prefixes, words, roots - the study of words - morphology. I created our classroom Affix Tree where students get to hang leaves onto it after they have learned the affix. I created this with a glass bottle and a few twigs found outside my house. I wrapped the bottom part of the bottle with brown construction paper and labeled it words. I bought some cloth red leaves (suffix) and green leaves (prefix) to label the affixes. Some of the leaves hanging in the picture beside are: un, pre, non, ness, less, ly, es, s, ty, ed. I poked a hole with a small paper clip to hang them onto the branches. I have this tree always displayed in the tutor centre. Once every month I take the leaves down from the tree and have them hang it back and tell me the meaning of each affix. It is a great review game.
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Ed Wiederer
5/29/2010 05:10:01 am
This sounds like a great idea. Would be great if there was a larger version of the photo so one could read the leaves...
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AuthorDora Cheung - Certified OG Tutor, Masters of Educ. Admin., Early Childhood Education, +20 yrs of teaching experience. Married with 3 boys - 13 yrs, 11 yrs and 8 yrs old. Archives
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