Choose the correct suffixes

by The Swift Bird

Price: 325 points or $3.25 USD

Subjects: ela,elaLanguage,vocabAcquisitionAndUse,knowledgeOfLanguage,conventionsOfStandardEnglish

Grades: 3,4,5

Description: Suffixes fill-in-the-blank exercise with 32 cards. Grow morphology muscles with this no-prep, type-in suffix deck! Students read a sentence with a missing word ending and type the suffix only (no hyphen) that correctly completes the base word. Targets the six high-utility Grade 3/4 suffixes: -ness, -ment, -ful, -less, -ly, -er (agent). Students will strengthen their understanding of how suffixes change the meaning of base words while practicing context-based reasoning and sentence comprehension. Each sentence includes a base word to support learners as they think critically about which suffix fits best. Common Core standards L.3.4, L.3.4b, L.4.4, L.4.4b