Description

Help students understand suffixes, and root words with this engaging word study worksheets for elementary ELA, and ESL. These printable vocabulary activities help students break apart words, understand word meaning, and strengthen decoding and reading comprehension.
Perfect for literacy centers, vocabulary practice, word study lessons, independent practice, homework, homeschool, online learning platforms, ESL classes, or small group instruction.
What’s Included:  This resource includes activities designed to help students understand how suffixes work, why they change the meaning of a word, consonant suffixes and vowel suffixes, and their individual meanings.
Students will practice:
• identifying and suffixes
• understanding root words
• building new words using suffixes
• determining word meaning
• strengthening vocabulary and decoding skills
✔ No prep printable worksheet
✔ Supportive keys included
✔ Easy to implement word study practice

Skills Covered

This resource supports students learning:
• suffixes
• root words
• vocabulary development
• word structure and meaning

Aligned with Common Core standards:
• L.3.4 – Determine meaning of words using prefixes and suffixes
• L.4.4 – Use word parts to understand word meaning

Teachers use this resource for:
• literacy centers
• word study lessons
• vocabulary practice
• independent practice
• early finishers
• homework
• substitute plans

Grade Levels:

2nd Grade
3rd Grade
4th Grade
Also works well for intervention or review in upper elementary.

Packet includes:

Prefixes Anchor Chart

Suffixes Anchor Chart

Base Words Anchor Chart

Base Words & Prefixes

The Prefix re-

The Prefix un-

The Prefix pre-

Base Words & Suffixes

The Suffix -ful

The Suffix -less

The Suffix -er (a person who ___)

The Suffix -er (more)

The Suffix -est

Writing Sentences using Words with a Prefix or Suffix

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