If You Were a Suffix

by Marcie Aboff, Sara Gray (Illustrator)

Overview

If you were a suffix, you would always be at the end of a word. You could make "tall" become the TALLEST. You could make "end" become ENDLESS. What else could you do if you were a suffix?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781404847781
Publisher:	Capstone
Publication date:	09/01/2008
Series:	Word Fun
Pages:	24
Sales rank:	126,937
Product dimensions:	8.70(w) x 10.70(h) x 0.10(d)
Lexile:	580L (what's this?)
Age Range:	7 - 10 Years

About the Author

Christianne Jones is an award-winning author of books for younger children. Her picture bookLacey Walker, Nonstop Talkerwon a 2013 Gelett Burgess Award and was a Midwest Book Award finalist, and Hello, Goodbye, and a Very Little Lie was listed as one of the 100 best children's books by popular parenting site babble.com. Christianne lives in Mankato, Minnesota, with her husband and three daughters.

Editorial Reviews

Part of the “Word Fun” series of fifteen books on parts of speech and elements of grammar, this edition explains suffixes for early elementary students. In the picture book format, the story defines the many ways a suffix can be used and gives examples of each use, underlining the examples throughout. Colorful, cartoon-like drawings of animals and minimal text combine to attract young readers by reinforcing the various uses of suffixes such as to indicate the past tense, the present tense, and plural. The book also describes how the addition of each sufix changes the meaning of a word. There are more than one example of each use for readers having difficulty mastering the elements of grammar. A follow up written activity, glossary of new terms, and sources for further study included.

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