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Spelling List 23: Words with -er and -est, and Academic Vocabulary
In this spelling list learning exercise, students practice spelling words that are er and est words and vocabulary. Students practice spelling 16 words total.
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Using -er and -est When Comparing Words
The focus of this language arts presentation is on when to use 'er' versus 'est' when comparing words. Students view a series of three pictures per slide, and attempt to use the word endings correctly. For example: strong, stronger,...
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Homework Master: er and est
In this spelling worksheet, students read ten sentences and fill in the blanks with words with the "er" and "est" suffixes. Students than answer each riddle.
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English Language Grammar Worksheet: Learning About Suffices "er and est"
In this suffixes worksheet, students choose which words will make the sentence complete by either adding -er or -est suffix. There are 7 sentences to complete.
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Suffixes: Er and Est
In this suffixes worksheet, students add the suffixes er and est to the given words to change their intensity. Students then write sentences for five words from a book.
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Comparison words
Here is a list of rules for adding "er or "est" to words when comparing. Three examples are shown with little cartoon figures which are cute, but not relevant.
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Adding -ed and -ing, -er and -est
In this suffixes worksheet, 5th graders complete a crossword puzzle as they answer seventeen clues and statements associated with a spelling list of words that end in ed, ing, er and/or est.
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Comparative Adjectives
Provide practice for your class transforming adjectives into comparative and superlative forms using -er and -est. Learners do so, first with 11 adjectives, then for 10 more that end in -y, so they must use -ier and -iest. Then they fill...
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Suffixes: er and est
In this suffix worksheet, students choose the word with the suffix that correctly completes the sentence. All choices have either "er" or "est" as the suffix.
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Word Endings
In this word endings worksheet, students look at the root words and use the word ending rule to change the words by adding er or est.
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Suffixes 2
A list of nine verbs is provided for students to add different suffixes; a bank of five suffixes is also given. Only some of the suffixes actually work with verbs, though, so this is a good opportunity for discovery. Learners reflect on...
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Comparative and Superlative Word Forms
In this comparative and superlative words worksheet, students add -er and -est to each of the 9 words in the graphic organizer.
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Comparatives Superlatives
Review comparatives and superlatives. Middle schoolers are introduced to modifiers such as Adjectives and Adverbs. They will talk about comparatives and superlatives such as: What makes them different, fo over rules for each type of...
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Adverbs
Fourth graders add er and est to adverbs, add more and most to adverbs, and proofread adverb sentences that compare. For this adverbs lesson plan, 4th graders complete worksheets and play an adverb game.
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Word Endings
In this word endings worksheet, students complete the 10 sentences by changing the word on the right to make sense in the sentence by adding er, est, y, or i.
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Suffixes
Add additional meanings to root words! Scholars show what they know about suffixes and root words with a activity that challenges them to create words and complete sentences.
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Suffixes
An investigation of suffixes challenges students to change the endings of different nouns, verbs and adjectives in this two-part worksheet. The first task asks students to use the given list of words and suffixes to create new words;...
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Spelling Words-Suffixes: er/est
In this spelling worksheet, students copy a set of 20 words with suffixes of either "er" or "est." Parents are given 2 suggested activities to help students study the words.
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Vocabulary: Morphemic Elements: Affix Action
Make a game out of word parts. Pupils work in pairs to advance along the board. One partner reads a sentence from a card, and the other identifies the correct affix that fits with a word in that sentence.
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Adding Suffixes
In this suffixes practice instructional activity, learners combine 24 root words that end in y to suffixes. Students determine whether they need to change the y endings to i as they add the suffixes.
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Suffixes Beginning with Vowels
In this suffixes instructional activity, students respond to 10 questions by correctly adding the provided suffixes to the root word forming new words.
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Suffixes
In this suffixes worksheet, learners write the correct ending to each of 12 base words. Definitions are given for both the base words and the suffixes.
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Comparison Practice 1: -er than/the -est, Comparison Practice 2: as...as
In the ESL grammar activity, students write comparison statements using -er than/the -est or as...as statements. There are 12 sentences for students to write.
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Preterite Forms of -AR, -ER, -IR Verbs
Students explore how to form the preterite forms of regular -AR, -ER, and -IR verbs. They complete a variety of written task in which they write the correct preterite forms of the verbs. Students complete a worksheet finding the correct...