Prairie River Academy

English Language Arts

Grade 4Unit 1Lesson 2

Morphology and vocabulary

Build Word Families

Today: Connect related words through a stable base.

A

Begin

Warm-up

  1. 1.Name two words related to help.

  2. 2.Find the shared base in musician and musical.

B

Learn

Build Word Families

A word family shares a base meaning even when suffixes change pronunciation or grammatical job.

Write the base in the center. Add related forms and state how each functions in a sentence.

Study the model

act → action, active, actor, react

C

Read

Original PRA passage

The actor's active rehearsal helped the action feel natural.
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Prairie River Academy

Build Word Families

Grade 4Practice and apply
D

Practice

Read, think, and respond

  1. 1.List three members of the act family. ELA-4-01-02-Q1

  2. 2.Which word names a person? ELA-4-01-02-Q2

  3. 3.Which word names a process or event? ELA-4-01-02-Q3

  4. 4.Explain react from its parts. ELA-4-01-02-Q4

E

Apply

Use the lesson

Create a four-word family from move and use two forms in sentences.

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