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This product is a teacher- and student-template for 15 words that include prefixes, roots, and suffixes that are part of over 15,000 words. We didn't choose the words (they did: http://penningtonpublishing.com/blog/reading/how-to-teach-prefixes-roots-and-suffixes/), but we created these templates to break down their meanings. The first page is a the teacher template - it gives an explanation of prefixes, roots, and suffixes; a tractor analogy for understanding them; and a breakdown of each of

Students can use this Personal Word Wall to record words that they want to (or need to) learn to spell. We have students keep these in their writing journals and use them to record words that they want to use in their writing but do not know how to spell. NOTE: We discourage using this as a way to organize spelling words. Spelling words should be organized around spelling patterns, not the first letter in the word.

This is a simple sign-in/sign-out sheet for students to fill out when they leave the classroom. There is room left at the top for a clipboard clamp so that the clamp does not obscure the title of the document.