Morphology Reading Passages with Prefixes, Suffixes and Word Roots – 64 Pages

Help students master morphology with these prefix, suffix and word roots reading passages. A knowledge of affixes and their meanings is crucial for reading, writing, spelling, vocabulary and comprehension.

These reading passages are perfect for highlighting for students how each morpheme can be in a range of different words. Knowing how to spell and read affixes helps with spelling and reading whole words. Knowing what they mean helps with vocabulary and therefore comprehension.

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Included in this resource:

64 reading passages, including..

• 28 Prefix passages
• 16 Word Root passages (with 20 roots included)
• 20 Suffix passages
• Each passage

The prefixes included are:

pre-, re-, mis-, over-, dis-, un-, non-, bi-, ex-, com-, in-, im-, con-, pro-, il-, ir-, sub-, inter-, auto-, anti-, super-, ad-, de-, ob-, per-, post-, tele-, trans-

The word roots included are:

ceed, cede, cess, duct, duce, flect, flex, form, press, rupt, ject, port, script, scribe, sist, spect, struct, tain, tend, tract, lev

The suffixes included are:

-ment, -ion, -able, -ly, -less, -ful, -ed, -ing, -s/-es, -est, -ness, -ous, -er, -ist, -ic, -en, -ive, -al, -ish, -y

On each page, students read the passage and underline each word that contains the focus morpheme. There is space at the end of each page for students to write the meaning of one or two underlined words.

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