PREFIX & SUFFIX GAME | MORPHOLOGY MATRIX | YEAR 4 – 6

Try something new to engage and build your students’ morphology awareness! Boost your students’ spelling, vocabulary and reading comprehension with this Morphology Word Building Game. This engaging prefix and suffixes game that helps Year 5 and 6 students build and understand multisyllabic words in as little as 5 minutes a day!

This morphology game is Science of Reading aligned. By building multisyllabic words combining Latin bases, prefixes and suffixes students learn how words are built and why they are built that way. These activities boost spelling, vocabulary and reading comprehension in a unique, engaging way.

This resource includes:

✅ 24 morphology word-building game task cards featuring 16 high-frequency bases.

✅ Teacher PowerPoint presentation version for whole-class implementation

✅ Student recording sheet: including a check for understanding / exit ticket

✅ Answer key: a list of multisyllabic words that students can build is included.

Why you will love this resource: It’s new! It’s exciting! It’s a bit different!

Your students will pick up how to play quickly and will follow the routine for all the games! They’ll love the easy to play, but challenging, structure of each game. It’s addictive (just like sudoku but with morphemes!).

You’ll love the flexible format that works for whole-class instruction, small groups, literacy rotations and independent practice. They will strengthen their understanding of prefixes, suffixes and base words while exploring word meaning and structure and be too engaged to even realise it!

You teach the bases and their meanings, and then students can apply what they have learned through this game. The student worksheet includes an exit ticket to allow them to demonstrate their understanding of morphemes as meaning makers!

Students practise building multisyllabic words using these Latin root bases:

• tract
• struct
• port
• vis
• rupt
• sign
• form
• act
• ject
• duct
• cept
• mit/miss
• spect
• vert/vers
• cess/cede/ceed\
• pli/ply

Perfect for:

• Years 4–6 classrooms
• Upper primary word study, spelling lessons, morphology instruction and small group literacy activities.
• Intervention and support groups
• Independent, small group or whole class practice of word building
• Homeschool settings for extension, application and practice of word building
• Years 7 – 9 for revision of multisyllabic word building
• Suitable for daily morphology warm-ups: Put one matrix on the board as students arrive. They build words independently and compare with a partner. Their recording sheet and exit ticket activity will give you insight into their knowledge of word building.

🎉 Grab your copy today and make morphology instruction engaging, meaningful and easy to implement!