Consolidate knowledge of suffixes with this fun, no prep game! Students work their way around the gameboard, landing on the suffixes. Students are then required to choose a word from the word pile and add the suffix –s, -es, ies or –ves, ensuring they spell the word correctly on the recording sheet. A perfect game for literacy rotations, spelling groups or fast finishers! This activity is part of a larger unit of work for Year 3- Prefixes and Suffixes.
Understand how to apply knowledge of common base words, prefixes, suffixes and generalisations for adding a suffix to a base word to read and comprehend new multimorphemic words
Know how to use common prefixes and suffixes, and generalisations for adding a suffix to a base word
Uses a range of strategies, including knowledge of letter– sound correspondences and common letter patterns, to spell familiar and some unfamiliar words
Builds knowledge and use of Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary through interacting, wide reading and writing, and by defining and analysing words
Sustains independent reading with accuracy, automaticity, rate and prosody suited to purpose, audience and meaning
Reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes using knowledge of text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension
Selects, applies and describes appropriate phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies when spelling in a range of contexts
Recognise most high-frequency words, know how to use common prefixes and suffixes, and know some homophones and generalisations for adding a suffix to a base word