Find The Suffix Activity

Suffix practice on one worksheet: students rewrite base words such as love, friend, skill and poison with -ness, -ful, -ly, -ment, -able, -ship, -ous or -less, and many words accept more than one.
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Grades 3–9
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1
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Updated Sep 17, 2024

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Grammar, ELA
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Find the Suffix Activity, Find the Suffix
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Activity Introduction

An amazing activity designed for the students to learn more about languages.

Find The Suffix

Do you enjoy learning English? Which topic do you like the most Grammar, writing, reading, spelling, comprehension, vocabulary or phonics?

Have you ever tried to learn any other language? If yes, tell us more about it?

How many languages are spoken in the world? What do you think the most interesting one?

Can you say Hello in Spanish, French or even Japanese? You can give it a try!

Can you name the countries that speaks Portuguese?

How many countries speaks Dutch?

What is the less spoken language in the whole world?

Would you like to learn a new language someday? If yes, which language will you choose?

The activity is perfect for encouraging the researching skills for the students, while learning more about world languages.

Find The Suffix

This friendly designed worksheet is suitable for students at school, homeschooling, and as a group activity.

Instructions

Rewrite each of the following words using the correct suffix. Some of them can have multiple suffixes so write as many as you can!

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Available in a PDF format.

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Choose a suffix that forms a real word from a given base word

  • Recognize that one base word can take several different suffixes

Teaching tips

  • Because several words take more than one suffix, students could compare their lists to see how each suffix changes a word's meaning.

Skills covered

  • Word formation — rewriting each base word with suffixes from the bank

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