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Use common grade-appropriate roots and affixes as clues to the meaning of a word.
Clarifications:
Essential Understandings
- Identify common inflectional endings in words (“Find the words that mean more than one,” i.e., have an -s or -es at the end).
- Identify the meaning of the most common suffixes.
- Identify the meaning of the most common prefixes.
- Identify an affix or inflectional ending for a frequently occurring word.
- Identify the meaning of common inflections and affixes.
- Identify an unknown word by a known word and known affix (happy, unhappy).
General Information
Number: LAFS.4.L.3.AP.4b
Category: Access Points
Date Adopted or Revised:
06/14
Cluster:
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Related Standards
This access point is an alternate version of the following benchmark(s).
Related Courses
This access point is part of these courses.
5010010: English for Speakers of Other Languages-Elementary
5010020: Basic Skills in Reading-K-2
5010030: Functional Basic Skills in Communications-Elementary
5010050: Reading-Elementary
5010060: Integrated Language Arts-Elementary
5010045: Language Arts - Grade Four
7710015: Access Language Arts - Grade 4
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