Vocabulary, Morphology & Word Study Worksheets
Vocabulary and word study practice for Kindergarten through 5th Grade: what words mean, and how words are built. Every worksheet has its own answer key, and the first three worksheets in every set are open to everyone.
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Practice pages support a program; they are not the lesson. These sheets reinforce Phonics, Decoding, and Early Fluency, the complete K–5 reading curriculum from Faith Readers. See every program →
Skills include: Vocabulary Skills · Plurals & Word Forms · Prefixes · Suffixes · Greek & Latin Roots
Across the grades, by topic: Suffixes · Spelling
How the vocabulary and word study practice is arranged
The early grades work on meaning: a word worked out from the sentence around it, words that mean the same, opposites, and words with more than one meaning. Later the work turns to how words are built: plurals, prefixes and suffixes, and then Greek and Latin roots.
A word-part set teaches one part and then sorts it against parts the child already knows, so that port is told apart from words where the same letters mean nothing. One root or one suffix opens many words at once, which is why the upper grades hold more sets.
What each grade holds
- Kindergarten — Vocabulary Skills.
- 1st Grade — Vocabulary Skills.
- 2nd Grade — Plurals & Word Forms, Prefixes, Suffixes and Vocabulary Skills.
- 3rd Grade — Greek & Latin Roots, Plurals & Word Forms, Prefixes, Suffixes and Vocabulary Skills.
- 4th Grade — Greek & Latin Roots, Prefixes, Suffixes and Vocabulary Skills.
- 5th Grade — Greek & Latin Roots, Suffixes and Vocabulary Skills.
Common questions
- Which vocabulary and word study worksheets are free?
- The first three worksheets in every set, in every grade. The free sheets are always practice pages, never answer keys; All Access opens the rest and every key.
- Do the worksheets come with answer keys?
- Yes. Every worksheet has its own answer key. The keys are included with All Access.
- What is word study, and how is it different from spelling?
- Spelling asks a child to produce the right letters. Word study asks what the parts of a word do: that un- reverses a meaning, that -est marks the most of something, that port means carry. The two overlap, and word study usually improves spelling as a side effect, but the goal here is meaning and reading unfamiliar words.
- Does my child need to finish a whole set?
- No. Do a handful of sheets from a set, watch whether the skill holds up in real reading, and come back to the same set weeks later if it has not.
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