Prefix Worksheets

Buoy your learning with our free, printable prefix worksheets! Learning prefixes helps children key into new vocabulary words by breaking down unfamiliar words into easily understandable segments. Knowing commonly used prefixes along with a few root words is key for early readers to thrive. There are prefixes in nearly every word we use - unlock, misuse, and retell for example. Our prefix exercises with answers pdf boast an all-round practice in determining the meaning of the new words formed when known prefixes are added to known words with exercises like coloring prefixes, matching prefixes to root words, sorting prefixes, and more.

These worksheets are most recommended for children in 1st grade through 5th grade.

Identifying and Coloring Prefixes in Words

Unlock a bright practice opportunity with these color the prefix worksheets for grade 1 and grade 2, where kids identify and color the prefix in each word. Molding kids into well-informed readers will now be a cinch!

Forming Words by Adding Prefixes

Essential building blocks of words, prefixes and root words give the keen-to-excel readers in 3rd grade an upper hand. Juice up practice by making new words by adding to each word a prefix as relevant.

Matching Prefixes to Root Words

Flit between the fun and learning prefixes have in store for you! In these printable prefixes worksheets, 1st grade and 2nd grade kids match each prefix to a root word and write the newly formed word in the blank.

Completing Words in Sentences Using Prefixes

Provide children in 4th grade and 5th grade the tools needed to decode difficult words. Complete the sentences in this section of our prefix worksheets pdf with answers by adding to each word an apt prefix from the box.

Sorting Words with Negative Prefixes

The more children practice prefixes, the less they're likely to struggle while reading. In these pdf prefix worksheets for grade 3, read each word, identify the prefix in it, and sort it as appropriate. Open up to negative prefixes!

Completing Words in a Passage Using Prefixes

Let the young superstars in grade 4 and grade 5 prove their prefix chops by adding to each highlighted word a suitable prefix and completing these printable passages.