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Grades 3–4

Prefixes, suffixes, and roots for grades 3–4

This is when kids start meeting longer words in their reading. Knowing common word parts helps them figure those words out on their own.

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What to practice at this age

The word skills that matter most for grades 3–4, and what each resource below helps with.

Prefixes

Using un-, re-, pre-, dis-, and mis- to change a word's meaning.

Suffixes

Seeing how -er, -ness, -able, and -ly change what a word does in a sentence.

Common roots

Meeting high-use roots like port, rupt, and dict, and finding them in new words.

Daily workbook

180 days of practice, one page a day. Works at the kitchen table or as classroom morning work.

Free word games

Gram Crackers is a great fit now. Root Word Spellbook is a good stretch for kids who are ready for Greek and Latin roots. Both run in any browser, on a phone, tablet, or Chromebook.

Gram Crackers

A word-building kitchen where kids mix prefixes, roots, and suffixes to build real words and serve them to customers.

Best for: prefixes, suffixes, word families · Grades 1–6+

Play Gram Crackers

Root Word Spellbook

Kids combine two Greek or Latin roots to invent a magic spell, explain what it does using the meaning of each root, and save it to their spellbook. Then they take their spells into the Spell Arena.

Best for: Greek and Latin roots, explaining word meanings

Play Root Word Spellbook

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