Root Words Prefixes and Suffixes Passage Activity for Middle School

This root words, prefixes, and suffixes passage activity for middle school is based on our Bessie Coleman, biography rap song. The song's lyrics are used as a reading passage which provide students with many affixed words for identifying root words and affixes in the text.

Student will listen to the song then use the song lyrics as a reading passage to complete the activities detailed below.

*Note: This product is a digital, Google Forms reading activity for use in Google Classroom.

If you would like the paper-based activity, click here.

The song for this activity explores the life of Bessie Coleman, the first licensed, Black American pilot who moved to France to pursue a career in aviation and then returned to the U.S. where she gained success as a stunt pilot.

*Listen to the song with the video preview above!*

Accommodate your students using audio!

Do you teach EL/ESL or SPED students/SWDs? Have them use the song as a read-aloud with subtitles. Students can also slow down the song to make listening and comprehension easier. Instructions are embedded into the activity for students.

This activity includes:

- the song with subtitles embedded into the Google Form

- the song lyrics embedded into the Google Form

- self-grading quiz format with the answer key

- brief explanations about what root words, prefixes, and suffixes are

- 5 multiple-choice, identifying root words questions with the answer key

- 5 multiple-choice, identifying prefixes questions with the answer key

- 5 multiple-choice, identifying suffixes questions with the answer key.

How to Use This in Google Classroom: Click here for a quick tutorial!

Use the link in the download to copy our Google Form to your Google Drive. Assign the Google Form to your students by sharing a link, sending an email, or using Google Classroom.

*Google Forms are paperless and self-grading. Grades and data are collected automatically once students complete the quiz. You can view individual student responses or see how students did as a class, letting you know how many questions were answered correctly or incorrectly.

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Unknown - Immediate source: "The first black woman aviator had to leave the U.S. in order to achieve her dreams". Timeline.com. March 19, 2018.Original source: George Rinhart/Corbis via Getty Images, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=82504527

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