Starter quiz
- Select the three words that contain the suffix '-less'.
- careless ✓
- happily
- hopeless ✓
- joyful
- pitiless ✓
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- Match the words with their word roots.
- fearful⇔fearless ✓
- played⇔playing ✓
- harmful⇔harmless ✓
- Select the nouns.
- dog ✓
- barked
- home ✓
- run
- bone ✓
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- Choose the correct spelling of the word in bold in the following sentence: He was very cairless.
- careles
- careless ✓
- cairless
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- Choose the correct spelling of the word in bold in the following sentence: She felt hopeles when they lost the match.
- hopless
- hopeles
- hopeless ✓
- hoples
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- Choose the correct spelling of the word in bold in the following sentence: She was feerles and jumped off the high wall.
- fearles
- fearless ✓
- feerles
- feerless
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Exit quiz
- Choose the correct spelling of the word in bold in the following sentence: He brort his muddy shoes into the house.
- brout
- bought
- brought ✓
- brort
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- Choose the correct spelling of the word in bold in the following sentence: She said goodbye to evryone before leaving.
- everywon
- evereeone
- everyone ✓
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- Match the word to the suffix it contains.
- punishment⇔ment ✓
- happiness⇔ness ✓
- played⇔ed ✓
- Choose the correct spelling of the word in bold in the following sentence: The darknes was all around them.
- darcknes
- darknes
- darkness ✓
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- Choose the correct spelling of the word in bold in the following sentence: The apoyntment was at 9am.
- apointment
- appointment ✓
- appointiment
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- Correct the spelling of the word in bold in the following sentence: The happynes spread around the team after they won the game.
- 'happiness' ✓
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- A suffix is a letter or group of letters at the end of a word which creates another word.
- If the suffix starts with a consonant letter, it is usually added without any change to the root word.
- If a root word has more than one syllable and ends in a consonant + 'y', then 'y' is replaced by 'i' before the suffix.
Common misconception
Children may struggle to generate a sentence with these nouns in, such as improvement or darkness.
Model all the focus words simply and clearly in sentences to help demonstrate the meaning and their place within a sentence.
Keywords
Root word - the base word from which other words are formed often by adding prefixes or suffixes
Noun - a naming word for people, places or things
Suffix - a group of letters added to the end of a root word
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