After teaching prefixes it is important to have quality application activities to help students learn their meanings.

This can be used two different ways. 

1. It can be printed as a cut and glue activity.
2. It can be printed as a sort and match activity. 

Students will read postcards and postscripts including words with the prefixes e/ex- and post-. Then they will read the 4 different possible postscripts. They will analyze the context clues from the postcard to determine which missing postscript matches that postcard. They will pair each postcard with a postscript. 

Then they will identify all words with the prefixes post- and e/ex- and circle each of those prefixes. 

Lastly, students will determine the literal meaning of each word following these steps. 

1. Students will break each word apart into the different morphemes.
2. Below the word parts, they will write the meaning of each word part.
3. Then they will write a literal meaning by arranging the morpheme meanings in a way that creates a definition.

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