Suffixes worksheets
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A suffix is glued to the end of a word and changes its job: care becomes careful, careless, or carefully.
Three grades, each its own sheet. Print one here, or open a grade for examples and teaching notes.
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2nd grade
A suffix is a word part attached to the end of a base word. Second graders start with the friendly five: -ful (full of), -less (without), -er (a person who), -ly (in that way), and -y (like or covered with).
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3rd grade Core grade
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Third graders read suffixes as meaning clues and start weighing pairs like careful and careless, where both are real words and only the sentence tells you which fits. Spelling shifts appear too: happy drops its y in happily.
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4th grade
Fourth grade brings the noun-makers (-ness, -ment, -ion) and the heavyweight adjectives (-able, -ous): kindness, excitement, celebration, washable, dangerous. Students learn that a suffix sets a word's job in the sentence, which makes even unfamiliar long words predictable.
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