Suffix Teacher Resources

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This site is an interactive quiz to assess knowledge about adding the letter "s" changes the understanding of the word. The quiz is designed to follow the "Reading Bear: adding s" lesson.

In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate that end in letter "s" in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out...

In this lesson, students will listen to stories and determine the meaning of the word by using sentence-level context clues. They will think about the verbs that are used and think about how that verb appeals to their senses, giving them...

This video lesson focuses on removing nominalizations (long nouns made by adding suffixes to verbs, nouns, and adjectives) from your writing to make your sentences live instead of being a part of the living dead. Nominalizations impede...

Students use magnetic words, phrases, and suffixes to create their own poems. They can save their poetry and, if they choose, e-mail their poems to others.

In this lesson, students learn that the number suffix 'teen' actually means 'ten' and how this relates to place value. Includes some work with a hundreds chart. [7:15]

The past tense refers to event that have happened in the past. The basic way to form the past tense in English is to take the present tense of the word and add the suffix -ed. For example, to turn the verb 'walk' into the past tense, add...

Understand that ketones are named following IUPAC nomenclature. They are named by finding the carbonyl group and identifying it with a location number, if necessary, then adding the suffix '-one.' [8:43]

You will learn how to determine the meaning of grade-level academic English words derived from Latin, Greek, or other linguistic roots and affixes.

These are the most regular of the irregular verbs; while they don't behave exactly like regular verbs, like present tense 'walk' become past tense 'walked', they do maintain the '-ed' sound. It's just spelled differently.

Hispanic naming methods are explained on this resource. Spanish surnames, first names, married last names, Children's last names, Spanish middle names, Spanish nicknames, and Spanish suffixes are included on this site.

This article explains the part of a URL (Web address) called the "domain name," and the meaning of domain name suffixes, such as ".com" and ".org."

An explanation and examples of when to use verbs in their infinitive form and when to use them with the "ing" suffix.

[Free Registration/Login Required] The ways in which nouns and adjectives e.g. fix, simple, solid, drama, can be made into verbs by use of the suffixes -ate and -en. Investigate spelling patterns and generate rules to govern the patterns.

Spelling rules and examples for adding the "ing" suffix to the ends of words.

This interdisciplinary lesson plan teaches first graders to use the inflectional ending -ed to create past tense verbs from present tense verbs. As children learn to use the -ed pattern, they change familiar root words into longer words...

This lesson introduces comparatives and superlatives and how they are used. It is 2 of 2 in the series titled "Comparatives and Superlatives."

Here is a collection of our common core aligned worksheets for core standard L.K.4.B. A brief description of the worksheets is on each of the worksheet widgets. Click on the images to view, download, or print them. All worksheets are...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart discusses how the spelling of verbs changes when ing is added.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart discusses word endings - ight, ite, tion, cian, ious, eous, ial, ough. A worksheet is included that can be printed.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is designed for students to practice adding -s, -ed, and -ing to words.

Find the fool's gold by clicking and dragging the correct parts of speech into the box below the mine cars. Good luck!

A few rules and examples help students understand when and how to change words which end in -y, for plural nouns, verb forms, adjective and adverb forms.