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Morphographs Uncovered Worksheet

Morphographs are meaningful word parts. A prefix comes before a base word; a suffix comes after it. Read the clues carefully, then solve the spelling challenges. Use Australian spelling.

Crack the word code

Read each word and identify its meaningful parts. Write a hyphen between each morphograph. Some words have a prefix, some a suffix, and some have both.

1.At the beach clean-up, Tahnee felt unhappy when she saw litter. Break unhappy into morphographs.
2.The surf club will replay the safety video. Break replay into morphographs.
3.The helpful volunteer carried a heavy rubbish bag. Break helpful into morphographs.
4.The group was careless and left litter on the path. Break careless into morphographs.

Build and spell

Choose the word parts that make sense and check how the spelling changes when you join them.

5.Complete the sentence with a word made from re- + pack: “Before leaving the picnic, we had to the food.”
6.Add -ness to kind to make a noun meaning the quality of being kind. Write the new word.
7.Which word is spelled correctly with the prefix un-?
  • unusual
  • unnusual
  • un-usual
8.True or false: adding -less to hope makes a word meaning “without hope”.
TrueFalse

Make meaning from parts

Morphographs can help you work out the meaning and spelling of unfamiliar words.

9.Match each morphograph to its meaning.
  • re-
  • un-
  • -ful
  • -less
  • not or opposite of
  • without
  • full of
  • again
10.Charlie wrote “hopful” in a note about a hopeful beach clean-up. Correct the spelling and explain what happens to the final e in hope when -ful is added.
11.Make a new word by adding one suitable prefix or suffix to care. Write the word and explain its meaning.

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