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Gallaudet University: English Works: Suffixes to Know

For Students 9th - 10th
There are several types of suffixes, noun suffixes, adjective suffixes, verb suffixes, and adverb suffixes. Learning the word endings will also enable you to recognize various parts of speech.
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Affixes 4

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson focuses on affixes. It defines the term; discusses prefixes including location, examples, and how they affect the root word; discusses suffixes including location, examples, and how they affect the part of speech;...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: L.3.4b: Determine the Meaning When a Known Affix Is Added

For Students 3rd Standards
Links to 5 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard L.3.4b: Determine the meaning of the new word formed when a known affix is added to a known word (e.g., agreeable/disagreeable, comfortable/uncomfortable,...
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Reading Topics a to Z: Root Words, Roots, and Affixes

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An introduction to using word parts to improve vocabulary skills. Includes charts of common Greek and Latin roots as well as common prefixes and suffixes and their meanings. Each of the four charts can be downloaded.
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BBC

Bbc: Skillswise: Suffixes [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
BBC Skillswise offers a activity on suffixes for teachers and students.
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Unit Plan
St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Ed Lesson

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that the incorporate "ed" suffix. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Morpheme Structures: Affix Sort [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
A lesson plan in which students sort words according to whether they have a prefix, a suffix, both, or neither. Materials are included.
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BBC

Bbc: Skillswise: Spelling: Prefixes and Suffixes

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Skillswise site focuses on prefixes and suffixes. Included are a video about why learning about these additions to root words is important, fact sheets and worksheets for instruction. The Skillswise sites from BBC are geared to...
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BBC

Bbc: Skillswise: Root Words

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Skillswise site focuses on root words. Included are a video about why learning how to identify root words is important, fact sheets and worksheets for instruction, and quizzes on the information presented. The Skillswise sites from...
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Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: Suffix Ly

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
A brief tutorial about the use of the "ly" suffix and its effect on a word, followed by questions asking students to choose the appropriate "ly" word to complete sentences and to find the base word in four words with "ly" suffixes....
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Other

Prefixes Suffixes: Suffixes

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Learn seven rules for adding suffixes to words.
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Mountain View Middle School: The Suffixes Able and Ible [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Rules, examples, word lists, and practice exercises designed to teach the proper use of -ible and -able suffixes.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Affixes: Lesson 1

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson introduces affixes, including suffixes and prefixes and lesser-known affixes. It is 1 of 5 in the series titled "Affixes."
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Common Suffixes and Their Meanings

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson introduces common suffixes and their meanings.
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TES Global

Blendspace: Prefixes & Suffixes

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
An eleven-part learning module with links to texts, videos, images, and websites about prefixes and suffixes.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Prefixes and Suffixes

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart reviews the definition of prefixes and suffixes and includes an interactive activity using containers.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Prefixes and Suffixes

For Teachers 2nd - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart reviews prefixes, root words, and suffixes. Students practice constructing sentences.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Suffixes Ful and Able

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Help students to understand that a suffix is a group of letters at the end of a word that changes the meaning of that word. Practice using -full and -able.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Suffixes Ible and Able

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipcharts helps students recognize and use correctly the suffixes; ible, able, ive, tion, sion.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Suffixes Ic and Ary

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipcharts helps students recognize and use correctly the suffixes -ic and -ary.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Suffixes Ship and Hood

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart will help students to recognize and use correctly the suffixes ship, hood, ness, ment.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Suffixes Tion, Sion, Ssion, Cian

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart will help students to recognize and use correctly the suffixes tion, sion, ssion, and cian.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Chinatown Unit

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a 2nd grade unit based on the story Chinatown by William Low from the Harcourt Trophies series. There are several lessons on the suffixes -er and -est, linking verbs has, have, and had, and...
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Common Suffixes

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] To recognize and spell common suffixes and how these influence word meanings.