<\/a><\/div>\nWe are having a heat wave here in Indiana. We have had temperatures above ninety degrees this week. Today it was 92 degrees–a perfect day to go swimming and a perfect day to get a sunburn!<\/p>\n
For today’s WORDY WEDNESDAY, I thought we would look at two prefixes that have to do with July in Indiana–SOL and THERM.<\/p>\n
If you have been reading Language Lady very long, you know my two rules of thumb for learning:<\/p>\n
1. You know more than you think you know.<\/p>\n
2. Use what you already know to learn even more!<\/p>\n
Those two rules of thumb definitely apply to today’s prefixes.+<\/p>\n
We encourage our students to take a key word–any word that you already know–that has to do what you are trying to learn.<\/p>\n
In the case of sol and therm, you can take two words you already know as your “key words” to help you remember these two prefixes:<\/p>\n
SOL–solar….you know that solar means sun if you have ever talked about a solar blanket for your pool, solar power (generating power through the sun), or solar eclipse<\/p>\n
THERM–thermos or thermal…you know that THERM means heat if you have ever carried your soup or coffee in a thermos or had “thermal underwear” on in the winter to keep you warm.<\/p>\n
So…take your two KEY WORDS and use them any time you see the prefixes SOL and THERM:<\/p>\n
1. Sol a. solar b. solarium–part of a room that is exposed to the sun c. solstice–the pointer in which the sun stands sill<\/p>\n
2. Therm a. thermoplastic b. thermos c. thermodynamics d. thermoelectric<\/p>\n
The “solar heat” is high right now in Indiana, and the thermometer shows it at in the low nineties!<\/p>\n
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+Remember: A prefix is an affix. An affix is a letter or letters attached to a word that give more meaning to the word. The affix itself actually has meaning. A prefix is an affix that is added to the beginning <\/u>of a word–thus, the prefix to the word prefix PRE (meaning before)!<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We are having a heat wave here in Indiana. We have had temperatures above ninety degrees this week. Today it was 92 degrees–a perfect day to go swimming and a perfect day to get a sunburn! For today’s WORDY WEDNESDAY, I thought we would look at two prefixes that have to do with July in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[628,640,82,632,183],"tags":[177,171,176,173],"yoast_head":"\n
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