Suffix -ness Morphology Lessons Activities Worksheets

Description

Are you looking for some structured literacy morphology lessons to help your students master the most common prefixes and suffixes in English?

I’ve included EVERYTHING you need to explicitly teach and practice the suffix <ness>… whole group, small group, guided practice, and independent practice are all included!

-ness is a very common suffix in English, making it so important to teach and teach WELL!

**All lessons include both a PowerPoint AND Google Slides™ version.**

Perfect For:

• Whole Group Instruction – Use the interactive instructional slides for explicit whole group instruction (perfect for small group, too). Several of the instructional slides come with a printable student copy; print and pass out to ensure all students are following along! Everything you do, they will do, too!
• Small Group Instruction & Practice – Choose from over 40 animated reading and spelling slides designed specifically for small group or the 20+ student practice sheets to provide intentional guided practice. Decodable words & sentences and a reading passage (with comprehension questions) are also included!
• Independent Practice – Use any of the skill-specific practice sheets for additional practice, as a “must-do”, or while working in small groups. With over 20 different skill-specific practice sheets, differentiation is a breeze!
• Assessments – Use the word and sentence dictation sheet (or any of the skill-specific sheets) as an assessment.

I create and use everything in my own classroom! You WILL feel confident teaching my lessons! I walk you through EVERYTHING step-by-step, in the slide margins!

Lesson Components Include:

• Morphological Awareness
• Reading Words with Affixes: warm-up (review)
• Anchor Charts
• Language Comprehension
• Defining Morphemes (important morphological terminology anchor chart)
• Word Sums
• Vocabulary
• Parts of Speech
• Word Reading
• Word Matrices
• Suffixing Conventions (adding -ness to base elements & stems)
• Encoding Words with Suffix -ness (spelling)
• Word Analysis
• Word & Sentence Dictation
• -ness reading passage with comprehension questions
• Student Practice Sheets: constructing and deconstructing words containing -ness, fill-in-the-blank, vocabulary squares, fluency grids, spelling words with -ness, decodable words and sentences, encoding, sentence writing and MORE!