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Amber Guardians Activities: Reading, Comprehension and Spelling with English morphology

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Clair Baker

  • Amber Guardians Activities

244 pages
Interest Age: 8 to 14
2017
ISBN: 9781783692958

Amber Guardians Activites is loosely linked to the Amber Guardians reading series. This workbook focuses on helping students learn to read, spell and comprehend using their knowledge and understanding of English morphemes. Each chapter has cloze activities based on the text in the reading series. Other activities are independent of the reading series. The numbered chapters in this workbook correlate to the books in the reading series but do not have to be used strictly in tandem.

This activity book introduces a range of suffixes, prefixes and root words and contains reading comprehension and spelling activities using English morphology linked to the Amber Guardians books. Answer sheets are included. The teacher can select from the activities to suit the student.

Table of Contents

Amber Guardians Workbook Introduction

English spelling is complicated - who's to blame?

English spellings from Latin, Greek and Anglo-Saxon

Book 1: 'City of Secrets' (Suffixes 's', 'es', 'ed', & 'ing')

Book 2: 'The Bones of Ruin' (Suffixes 'ful', 'less', 'ness', 'er', 'est', 'ly', 'en', 'ish', 'y', 'able' & 'ible')

Book 3: 'Into the Unknown' (Prefixes 'un', 'in', 'im', 'il', 'ir', 'mis' & 'dis')

Book 4: 'Roots of Corruption' (Prefixes 're', 'pre', 'post', 'ante' & 'anti')

Book 5: 'Trials and Trickery' (Prefixes 'uni', 'bi', 'tri', 'quad', 'dec', 'cent' & 'multi')

Book 6: 'Impossible Transformation' (Prefixes 'sub', 'super', 'trans', 'inter' & 'ex')

Book 7: 'Facing Fears' (Prefixes 'magna'/'magni', 'min'/'mini' & 'micro')

Book 8: 'Bounty in the Lagoon' (Root words 'cap'/'capit', 'man', 'spect', 'ped', 'bio', 'viv'/'vit' & 'mort')

Book 9: 'Sounds of the Sirens' (Root words 'dict', 'graph', 'scrib'/'script' & 'mem')

Book 10: 'Guardians Unite' (Root words 'ject', 'tract' , 'port', 'struct', 'labour', 'fact' & 'form')

Activity Templates

Answer Sheets