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Amber Guardians Workbook: Reading, comprehension and spelling with English morphology

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Clair Baker

  • Amber Guardians Workbook

225 pages
Interest Age: 8 to 14
ISBN: 9781783692958

Amber Guardians Workbook 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 photocopiable workbook offers a variety of activities to help the student practice and consolidate what has been learned. 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