Starter quiz
- Identify all the words containing the suffix -ful.
- fullest
- cheerful ✓
- fully
- merciful ✓
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- Identify all the words containing the suffix -less.
- lesson
- powerless ✓
- slowly
- hopeless ✓
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- What word class is the word 'hopeless' in this sentence. Chen felt hopeless without his friends nearby.
- verb
- noun
- adjective ✓
- adverb
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- Match the words to the rules that apply when the suffix -less or -ful is added.
- cheer - cheerful⇔Just add -ful. ✓
- mercy - merciful⇔Remove the ‘y’, then add -iful. ✓
- hope - hopeless⇔Just add -less. ✓
- mercy - merciless⇔Remove the ‘y’, then add -iless. ✓
- Choose the correct spelling of the word in bold in the sentence. Queen Elizabeth had a very peesfull reign.
- pieceful
- peaceful ✓
- peacefull
- piecefull
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- Choose the correct spelling of the word in bold in the sentence. It was a joifull day.
- joiful
- joyful ✓
- joyfull
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Exit quiz
- Match the words to the rules that apply when the suffix -less or -ful is added.
- play - playful⇔Just add -ful. ✓
- beauty - beautiful⇔Remove the ‘y’, then add -iful. ✓
- power - powerless⇔Just add -less. ✓
- pity - pityless⇔Remove the ‘y’, then add -iless. ✓
- Choose the correct spelling of the word in bold in the sentence. She was very helpfull that day.
- helppful
- helpful ✓
- helpfull
- helpiful
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- Choose the correct spelling of the word in bold in the sentence. This tool is broken and yoosles!
- useles
- useless ✓
- yoosles
- yoosless
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- Correct the spelling of the word in bold in the sentence. The pityles zookeeper ignored the crying animals.
- 'pitiless' ✓
- Correct the spelling of the word in bold in the sentence. Be cairfull on the stairs.
- 'careful' ✓
- Correct the spelling of the word in bold in the sentence. I saw a faymus singer on the train.
- 'famous' ✓
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- The suffixes -ful and -less can be used to change the meaning of a root word.
- 'Look, cover, write and check' is a useful practice strategy.
- How to spell the curriculum word: famous.
- The -less and -ful suffixes start with a consonant, so the root word usually doesn’t change when the suffix is added.
- If the 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 spell words with the suffix -ful using a double 'l'.
Explicilty make the distinction between the word 'full' and the suffix -ful, which only has one 'l'. Practise spelling both in a sentence.
Keywords
Root word - the base word from which other words are formed often by adding prefixes or suffixes
Adjective - describes a noun
Suffix - a letter or group of letters added to the end of a word to change its meaning
Noun - a naming word for a person place or thing
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