Morphology Curriculum

Level 3 - Perfect for 5th Grade

Help your students become stronger readers and spellers with explicit morphology lessons that build vocabulary, spelling, decoding, and reading comprehension skills.

This year-long curriculum includes instruction for 35 high-impact prefixes, suffixes, and roots and gives teachers everything they need to make word study clear, consistent, and easy to teach.

Inside, you’ll get:

• Ready-to-use lesson plans
• Teaching slides for every lesson
• Printable anchor charts
• Student word study activities
• Independent practice pages
• Optional extension activities
• Answer keys
• A clear scope and sequence for the year

Morphemes included in Level 3: 

• Prefixes: uni, bi, tri, quad, ad, ob, a, micro, post
• Suffixes: age, ence/ance, ize, ory, ous/eous/ious, ism, 
• Roots: auto, graph/gram, geo, bio, logy/ology, therm, chron, duc/duct, cept, astr, phon, metr, mal, tele, hydro, photo, scope

These lessons can be used during a 10–15 minute daily word study block, as a weekly whole group lesson, or as short warm-ups, small group activities, and review throughout the week.

Perfect for teachers who want to help students understand how words work without having to plan morphology instruction from scratch.