Open Court 5th Grade Word Work

Match the suffixes

• -ize

• “Action” or “process”

  • - Turns root words into nouns

• -onym

• “To make”

  • - Nouns into verbs

• -ment

• “State of” or 

  “Quality of”

  • - Turns words into nouns

• - ness

• “State of being” or “condition of”

  • - Adjective to noun

• -ance or

  -ence

• “name”

  • nouns

Choose the best work to complete each sentence.

• kindness

• When people to nice things, we are reminded of the importance of ___.

• appearance

• The ___ of the ghost scared the children.

• antonym

• An ___ of happy is sad.

• criticize

• Sometimes spectators ___ the referee, loudly!

• arrangement

• The ___ of bride's flowers was beautiful.

Match the suffixes

• -ment

  (nouns)

• “Action” or “process”

  • - commit____

  • improve____

  • achieve____

• -ize

  (verbs)

• “To make”

  • - capital____

  • apolo____

  • critic____

• -ance or

  -ence

  (nouns)

• “State of” or  “Quality of”

  • - appear____

  • differ____

  • independ____

• • - onym

  • (nouns)

• “State of being” or “condition of”

  • - blind____

  • kind____

  • happi____

• - ness

  (nouns)

• “name”

Match the prefixes

• mid

• "middle"

• con

• "with" or "together"

• pre-

• "not"

• non-

• "before"

Match the prefixes

• pre-

  "before"

• ___view

  ___heat

  ___pay

  ___season

• con

  "with" or "together"

• ___stream

  ___air

  ___season

  ___term

• non-

  "not"

• ___ nect

  ___clude

  ___versation

• mid

  "middle"

• ___fiction

  ___toxic

  ___verbal

  ___sense

Match the prefixes

• one who does not speak

• midair

• in the middle of the air

• nonverbal

• pay before

• prepay

• talk together

• conversation

Match the roots.

• phon

• "ring" or

  "circle"

• cycl

• "place"

• flec

• "sound"

• loc

• "bend"

Match the roots with the words.

• cycl

  "ring" or

  "circle"

• ____ist

  en____opedia

  uni____e

  ____ical

• phon

  "sound"

• re____tion

  de____t

  ____ible

• flec

  "bend"

• ear____es

  xylo____e

  ____ograph

  xylo____e

• loc

  "place"

• ___ation

  dis___ate

  ___omotion

Match the roots with the words.

• one wheel

• phonograph

• easy to bend

• flexible

• early sound-reproducing machine"

• unicycle

• a place

• location

Greek Roots logos and graph, terra, photo

• photo

• "light"

• logos

• “Word,”  “saying,” or “thought”

• terra

• “write”

• graph

• “land “ or “Earth”