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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.

Minnesota K-12 Academic Standards benchmark: 0.1.8.2 · asking and answering questions about the meaning of new words

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 Minnesota

In the Minnesota K-12 Academic 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: Minnesota Department of Education (MDE)

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”?

    • cold
    • red
    • warm

  2. Question 2

    Which word means the same as “big”?

    • small
    • wet
    • large

  3. Question 3

    On a drawing, a label says “sun”. What does it tell you?

    • What the picture is
    • How old you are
    • How loud it is

  4. Question 4

    A topic word for plants is…

    • wheel
    • seed
    • pillow

  5. Question 5

    Which word names a place at school?

    • pizza
    • gym
    • kitten

  6. Question 6

    Which word is a body part?

    • pillow
    • carrot
    • elbow

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