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Kindergarten · English Language Arts · Unit 11 of 12

Word Parts & Meanings

-s, -ing, un- and groups of words.

What your child practices

Practices how a small word part changes a word (-s for more than one, -ing for happening now, un- for not), grouping words by topic, opposites and same-meaning words, and naming picture parts with labels.

Alaska content standards learning standard: L.K.4; L.K.5 · working out word meanings and sorting words into groups

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Add -s to mean more than one: dog, dogs.
  2. Add -ing for something happening now: play, playing.
  3. Words can go in groups, like doctor, teacher, farmer.

Example: Add -s to “cat”. What word do you get? cat + s. cats means more than one cat. Answer: cats

Word Parts & Meanings in Alaska

In the Alaska content standards, this is unit 11 of 12 in Kindergarten English Language Arts, after Talk & Listen and before Ask and Find Out.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Alaska Department of Education and Early Development

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Which word is the opposite of “hot”?

    • red
    • warm
    • cold

  2. Question 2

    Which word means “not kind”?

    • kindly
    • kinder
    • unkind

  3. Question 3

    Which is an animal word?

    • spoon
    • rabbit
    • pencil

  4. Question 4

    Add un- to “happy”. What word do you get?

    • unhappy
    • happy
    • happily

  5. Question 5

    Add un- to “lock”. What word do you get?

    • lock
    • locks
    • unlock

  6. Question 6

    Which words are about the weather?

    • fork and plate
    • rain and wind
    • chair and desk

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