Suffixes

Hello there,
        I recently created an activity over suffixes, that I am eager to share! My class is currently reading one of Maya Angelou's book, Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou. Because the word, rainbow, is in the title of the book, I thought it would be cute to input it into the design of the activity. I created six rainbow images and glued it onto the poster board. At the end of each rainbow, I attached one side of a velcro strip,  so that the students would be able to add a cloud to the end of each rainbow. There are twelve clouds in total. Six clouds have root words on them, and the other six has suffixes. On each cloud, I attached one side of the velcro to the poster board, and the other side of it on the cloud. Just place the velcro strips on the clouds and at the end of the rainbows, ensuring that they will stick. The objective of the activity is to correctly match each root word to its corresponding suffix. The words that I chose for this activity came from Maya Angelou's book. This is an interactive activity that can be put towards prefixes as well, corresponding with any book of your choice. I hope you enjoy!

xoxoxo

     DaVonna Edgerson

Here are the rainbows, that are glued onto the poster board. The clouds are velcroed to the poster board.

Here is an example of what the student would do. I put a root word, walk, at one end of the rainbow.

Here is a picture showing that I attached another cloud to the other end of the same rainbow with the suffix, -ing, creating a new word, walking.


Check out this helpful link! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2583Ph6YS0s