Work by yourself to answer the following questions. Record your answers in your technology notebook.
The prefixes pre and fore both mean “before.” Can you think of other words with these prefixes that indicate something that occurs before something else?
- In this activity, you first wrote your ideas about the meaning of the words prediction and forecast. You then compared your ideas with those of your partner. In what ways was it helpful to compare your ideas with those of your partner?
Answers to Reflect and Connect
Allow students time to answer these questions. Once they have had time to complete their responses, you may want to hold a class discussion on some or all of them.
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The prefixes pre and fore both mean “before.” Can you think of other words with these prefixes that indicate something that occurs before something else?
Understanding the meaning of certain prefixes can help students understand other words. Although students’ answers will vary, some examples may include the following:
- Precaution: Care taken beforehand
- Precede: To come before
- Preconception: An idea or opinion formed beforehand
- Preface: An introduction to a book
- Premature: Happening, arriving, or done before the proper time
- Forefather: An ancestor or someone who came before
- Foremost: First in time or place
- Foreshadow: To indicate or suggest beforehand
- Foretell: To tell or indicate beforehand
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In this activity, you first wrote your ideas about the meaning of the words prediction and forecast. You then compared your ideas with those of your partner. In what ways was it helpful to compare your ideas with those of your partner?
It is often helpful for students to draw upon and organize their own ideas before sharing them with others. By comparing their ideas with the ideas of others, they may help clarify each other’s ideas or add depth to their ideas. This also helps emphasize that the teacher is not the sole authority in the classroom and that peers may have knowledge that is useful.