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Prefixes and Suffixes
Use this interactive tool to introduce your learners to prefixes and suffixes. First they use a crossword puzzle to find the opposites of the words provided. Then, they take a list of words and possible suffixes, matching the appropriate...
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Suffix "ous"
In this suffix "ous" worksheet, students learn that by adding the suffix "ous" to a word it will mean "having much" of the old word. Students add "ous" to six illustrated words.
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Using the Word Ending -ous
Help your class practice spelling and vocabulary skills using this resource. This presentation leads learners on an exploration of words ending in -ous. Using words, such as famous, generous, and dangerous, they discuss meanings and...
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Home Spelling Practice: Suffix "ous"
In this spelling worksheet, students learn to spell a list of twenty words with the "ous" ending. Students write the words one time on the lines. There are optional activities for these words.
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The Suffix-ous
In this suffix worksheet, students add -ous to a base word from the box to complete the sentences. Students then complete a challenge section.
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5th Grade Spelling: Suffixes: -ous, -ish, -ant, -ic
In this 5th grade home connection spelling practice worksheet, 5th graders examine 20 spelling words that feature suffixes. Students write the words 1 time each.
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Adding Suffixes
In this suffixes practice learning exercise, students 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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English Skills Worksheet 6.201
Review compound words, onomatopoeia, prefixes, and suffixes with your fifth and sixth graders. Each of the six exercises is short and simple, and the final exercise gives learners three options too choose from. They can use their weekly...
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Focus on Suffixes
For this language arts worksheet, students learn to add suffixes to root words by completing 15 questions. Students read the root word given, then choose a suffix from the choices and make a new word. Students then write an additional...
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Roots and Affixes: How Words are Created
Designed for a high school audience, this presentation covers roots and affixes in order to build vocabulary. Common prefixes (like bi-, anti-, and dis-) and suffixes (like -al, -ion, and -ous) are briefly introduced. Then, a few slides...
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English Skills Worksheet (6.203)
In this multiple English activities worksheet, students complete a variety of assignments: write three onomatopoeia sentences, add ten endings to ten words, give the root words to eight words, play two rounds of word chess, find the...
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Adjective-Forming Suffixes
In this nouns and verbs worksheet, students make sentences out of 10 words that could be nouns and verbs and use them as both in different sentences. Students complete 20 sentences.
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English Skills
In this English skills review worksheet, students complete 60 questions pertaining to vowels, word endings, anagrams, parts of speech, proofreading, root words, onomatopoeia and spelling. There is no instruction on the page.
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Class Flow: Suffixes Ful and Able
[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.