Ninth Grade Mini Literacy Pack: From Word Craft to Academic Language (Suffixes: ism, ist, ic, ical)

Your scholar learns four academic suffixes: ism (an idea or belief), ist (a person), and ic and ical (about or like). They read big words like journalism, journalist, optimistic, and historical, then read a story called The Journalism Club.

What's inside:

13 pages, instant PDF download

Grown-Up Guide, Toolkit, and Answer Key

Hear It, Map It, and Break It

Read It: a decodable story, The Journalism Club

Understand It: Pick It, Order It, and Draw It

Write It: Sort It, Spell It, Count It, and Say It, Write It

New heart words: mortgage, thorough

Vocabulary word: skeptical

How it works: five short sessions, about 15 to 20 minutes a day. No prep. Just print and begin.

A great fit if your scholar reads words with roots and is ready for suffixes that change what a word means.

This is a digital download. No physical item will be shipped.