Curated OER
Prefixes and Suffixes
Use this interactive tool to introduce your learners to prefixes and suffixes. First they use a crossword puzzle to find the opposites of the words provided. Then, they take a list of words and possible suffixes, matching the appropriate...
Curated OER
Adding Suffixes
For this suffixes practice worksheet, students combine 24 root words that end in y to suffixes. Students determine whether they need to change the y endings to i as they add the suffixes.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Vocabulary: Morphemic Elements, Make It Meaningful
Scholars learn to find meaning in words using affixes with a language arts activity. In pairs, children sort cards with printed sentences that include words with the prefixes mis- and pre- and the suffixes -er, -ness, and -able. Then,...
Curated OER
Noun-Forming Suffixes
In this suffix activity, students read about noun-forming suffixes, then write the 14 noun-forming suffixes that appear in a list, write 10 sentences, using some of them and labeling all nouns.
Curated OER
Focus on Suffixes
In this language arts worksheet, students learn to add suffixes to root words by completing 15 questions. Students read the root word given, then choose a suffix from the choices and make a new word. Students then write an additional...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Animal Classification
Present information about the classification of animals. After participating in the teacher-led discussion about scientific names, small groups devise their own way of classifying everyday objects present in the classroom, developing...
Curated OER
Summarizing Key Information
Students summarize information. In this language arts lesson, students summarize information from a fictional text. Students read a folktale and summarize the story.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Look at me!
Third graders write an autobiography and use pictures of themselves from past and present to illustrate it. They take pictures with a digital camera, scan pictures, and add them to a document.