Teaching Resource
Suffixes Puzzles Match Up Cards
A set of 15 puzzle cards for students to match suffixes with root words.
Print, cut and laminate this set of suffix and root word cards for students to match together in small groups or as a whole class.
Use this teaching resource as a literacy activity when developing reading and spelling skills.
A black and white version of this resource has also been provided.
NSW Curriculum alignment
Victorian Curriculum alignment
- VCELA312
Understand how to use banks of known words, syllabification, spelling patterns, word origins, base words, prefixes and suffixes, to spell new words, including some uncommon plurals
- VCELA263
Understand how to use letter–sound relationships and less common letter combinations to spell words
- VCELA296
Recognise homophones and know how to use context to identify correct spelling
- VCELA354
Understand how to use banks of known words, word origins, base words, prefixes, suffixes, spelling patterns and generalisations to spell new words, including technical words and words adopted from other languages
Australian Curriculum alignment
- ACELA1485
Understand how to use letter-sound relationships and less common letter patterns to spell wordsElaborationsusing sound and visual spelling strategies to explore less common letter patterns after a short vowel, for example words that end in ‘dgeÃ...
- ACELA1779
Understand how to use knowledge of letter patterns including double letters, spelling generalisations, morphemic word families, common prefixes and suffixes and word origins to spell more complex wordsElaborationsapplying generalisations for adding a...
- ACELA1513
Understand how to use knowledge of known words, base words, prefixes and suffixes, word origins, letter patterns and spelling generalisations to spell new wordsElaborationstalking about how suffixes change over time and new forms are invented to refl...
- ACELA1526
Understand how to use knowledge of known words, word origins including some Latin and Greek roots, base words, prefixes, suffixes, letter patterns and spelling generalisations to spell new words including technical wordsElaborationsusing a dictionary...
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Spelling typo of 'poison' fixed.
Fix by Victoria (Teach Starter) Nov 2nd, 2017
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