Description
Teaching suffixes is one of the most efficient ways to help older struggling and striving readers make faster progress with multisyllabic decoding, spelling, and vocabulary—especially as texts become more packed with academic language in upper elementary, middle school, and high school.
There are 150+ suffixes in English, but memorizing long lists isn’t effective for many struggling readers. Instead, this resource focuses instruction and practice on the most common, highest-impact suffixes—the ones students will see again and again in real reading. (In fact, focusing on common affixes can help students tackle the majority of morphologically complex words they encounter—often cited as up to 93% of words that use roots and affixes.)
This set is designed to be age-appropriate and flexible: use it for quick daily word work, small-group intervention, stations, tutoring, or structured literacy practice.
What’s Included:
1) Suffix Cards (printable manipulatives), including:
-s, -es, -ed, -ing, -er, -est, -ful, -less, -ness, -ly, -ment, -or, -ion, -ition, -ation, -an, -able, -ible, -al, -ial, -y, -ity, -ty, -ic, -ous, -eous, -ious, -en, -ish, -ive, -ative, -itive, -ance, -ence, -ate, -ize
2) Word Cards (printable manipulatives)
Use these 460 words for matching, sorting, word study, and sentence work. Includes a blank template so you can add your own words, too.
3) Suffix Search Pages (interactive activity)
Print, cut, and laminate to create 36 half-pages, then begin the search for words that use each suffix.
4) Word List (teacher reference)
A helpful list for planning lessons, games, extensions, and creating additional word cards.
This resource helps you teach the suffixes in a research-supported, low-prep way!
Best For
- Upper elementary, middle school, and high school intervention
- RTI/MTSS, special education, dyslexia-informed instruction, structured literacy lessons
- Small groups, tutoring, centers, daily word work, and review
This product aligns with Wilson Reading System(R) Books 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10, and 11, and Take Flight curriculum by Luke Waites Center for Dyslexia and Learning Disorders at Scottish Rite for Children.
This product supports reading grade level text and addresses Texas Reading Elective TEKS B.2.c.
