3rd-5th Grade Morphology Morning Work Prefixes and Suffixes Spelling Vocabulary
✨ Bring meaningful word study to your 3rd, 4th or 5th grade classroom with Morphology Morning Work! Worksheets cover prefixes, suffixes, and root words to build stronger spelling, vocabulary, word meaning, grammar, fluency, and reading comprehension skills! Specific themes for EACH day make it quick and easy for you to build a foundation in your classroom! ✨
Morphology skills are not mastered in just one lesson. They need repeated practice noticing word parts, breaking apart unfamiliar words, and using those parts to analyze word meaning. Morphology Morning Work provides a predictable Monday–Friday routine that makes word study easy to implement while helping students strengthen the skills they need to become more confident readers.
✅ What grades is this for?
These are aimed for 3rd-5th grade, but can also be used for differentiation with advanced or struggling readers, special education classes, or ESL students.
✅ What’s Included?
- 20 weeks of printable morphology morning work
- Answer keys
- One week per page (printed front and back)
- Weekly Google Slides presentations with one slide deck per week
- Google Forms
⭐️ Set B includes 20 weeks of morphology morning work focused on these prefixes and suffixes:
- Prefixes: in-/im-, dis-, mis-, semi-, fore-, sub-, inter-, micro-, trans-, anti-, multi-, out-
- Suffixes: -able/-ible, -ness, -ion/ -tion/-sion, -ify, -al/-ial, -ish, -ity, -ment
⭐️ The Morphology Morning Work Bundle includes 140 weeks of morphology morning work focused on these prefixes and suffixes, greek and latin roots, etc!
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- Morphology Morning Work Bundle
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⭐️ How to use the Morphology Morning Work
This bundle is made to help you address your students’ morphology needs in the best way that fits your classroom.
Each set increases in complexity, with Set A being ideal for beginning morphology instruction, Set B building on foundational prefixes and suffixes, Set C introducing Greek and Latin roots alongside more advanced affixes, and Set D being ideal for advanced instruction.
Set E will include a mixed review of all listed prefixes, suffixes, and roots, allowing students to review Sets A–D or cover multiple affixes and roots at once rather than focusing on each one individually.
You could also use these to differentiate in your classroom, with small groups using each of the different Sets A–D at the same time.
⛅️ Daily Themes ⛅️
Daily themes help you consistently cover critical content, keep your students engaged, and create easy routines.
✏️ Multisyllabic Monday: Monday introduces the week's prefix, suffix, or root and its meaning. Students spot it in sentences, combine it with base words to build new words, then break those words into syllables and sort them — getting comfortable reading longer words right from the start.
✏️ Transformation Tuesday: Tuesday is all about building and changing words. Students add the morpheme to base words, rewrite sentences to show how it changes the meaning, map out the meaning of each word part, and choose the right word to complete a sentence in context.
✏️ Word Work Wednesday: Wednesday puts the morpheme to work in real text. Students hunt for it in a short passage, define the words in context, fix grammar mistakes, and rewrite sentences to use the new word parts correctly.
✏️ Think it Through Thursday: Thursday is about deeper thinking. Students sort words by what the morpheme means, identify parts of speech, and decide which word truly fits. This moves students beyond recognition into real understanding.
✏️ Fluency Friday: Friday brings it all together with a short passage students read three times to build fluency. They find the week's word parts in context and answer comprehension questions that require genuine reading and thinking.
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The morning work/daily review is available for ELA in Grades 1-10 and Math for Grades 1-6. Use the link below to shop for your grade level.
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