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Kindergarten · English Language Arts · Unit 11 of 14

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.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) teks student expectation: K.3(C) · words for actions, opposites, days and places

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 Texas

In the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), this is unit 11 of 14 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: Texas Education Agency (TEA)

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

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

    • happily
    • unhappy
    • happy

  2. Question 2

    A word for a very big dog is…

    • huge
    • tiny
    • quiet

  3. Question 3

    Which word is the opposite of “hot”?

    • warm
    • red
    • cold

  4. Question 4

    Which word means the same as “big”?

    • wet
    • small
    • large

  5. Question 5

    The word “unsafe” means…

    • safe again
    • very safe
    • not safe

  6. Question 6

    Which word is a body part?

    • pillow
    • elbow
    • carrot

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