Learning about suffixes focuses on word endings and the skills involved target deconstruction in decoding and comprehension through morphology. The beauty of this game is that players have to say the word when they ask another player if they have that card. With one card in every pair illustrated the sets can be used for intervention prior to playing, contributing to vocabulary development simultaneously with comprehension.

You can omit pairs and mix sets as needed. The words used are:

Set 1: sadly, friendly, kindly, wildly, nearly, painter, singer, helper, teacher, mended, planted, tested, landed, buses, foxes, sixes, bases, dresses, beautiful, thankful, painful, careful, noisy, dirty, juicy, sandy

Set 2: quickly, softly, silently, blindly, neatly, driver, dancer, speaker, rider, leader, waiter, raced, popped, reached, kissed, talked, marched, hopeless, helpless, cloudless, hairless, fearless, careless, illness, fitness, madness

Set 3: matches, aces, boxes, sizes, laces, waved, cleaned, called, turned, failed, closed, sharpen, strengthen, frighten, fasten, loosen, straighten, homeless, spotless, endless, harmless, hatless, sweetness, kindness, thickness, meanness

Set 4: artist, pianist, dentist, tourist, guitarist, typist, soloist, journalist, breakage, wreckage, drainage, marriage, package, storage, tossing, driving, writing, working, riding, boxing, bakery, scenery, surgery, refinery, hatchery, gallery

Set 5: difference, silence, patience, appearance, performance, section, fraction, distraction, correction, exploration, action, lotion, author, visitor, actor, sailor, vision, excursion, illusion, direction, division, physician, beautician, electrician, magician, musician

Set 6: funny, smelly, thirsty, sleepy, handy, flexible, convertible, visible, horrible, terrible, possible, responsible, comfortable, adorable, valuable, miserable, available, magnify, purify, verify, classify, terrify, enormous, curious, dangerous, anxious