American Revolution
Common Prefixes
Math - Division
Math - Multiplication
Nonfiction Text Features & Structures
100

A violent fight with lots of death

massacre


100

This prefix means not 

un

100

9/3

3

100

9x20=

180

100

Words under a photograph that tell about the picture

caption

200

Money people must pay to a government

tax (or tariff)

200

This prefix means down

de

200

30/5

6

200

15x100= 

1,500

200

When a text is structured using dates, times, and words like first, next, and last

Time order or sequential or chronological

300

To go against something

rebelled

300

This prefix means again

re

300

120/10

12

300

30x30

900

300

This text FEATURE can help you put events in order, so you know what important event came first.

Time Line

400

a time when people people fight to replace one government with a different government 

revolution

400

This prefix means under

sub

400

250/5

50

400

120x30

360

400

To emphasize that some words are more important than others, writers often use WHAT to make words stand out in a text?

highlight, bold print or italics

500

The new capital of New Hampshire during the revolutionary war was NOT Concord. Where was it?

Exeter

500

This prefix means through

per
500

360/4

90

500

1,200 x 1,200

1,440,000

500

Smaller headings found UNDER or BENEATH a heading

subheading