1) Unit 3 Week 3 word study spelling suffixes intro

Objectives

​Demonstrate and apply phonetic knowledge by decoding words using knowledge of suffixes, including how they can change base words such as dropping -e, changing -y to i and doubling final consonants.

​Identify the meaning of words with affixes such as im- (into), non-, dis-, in- (not, non), pre-, -ness, -y, and -ful.

Suffixes -ful, -y, -ness

The suffixes -ful, -y, -ness  change the meanings of the base words to which they have been added. The suffixes -ful  and -y  can both mean “full of” or “having the character of.”

Multiple Choice

Choose the base word for silliness

• silly

• silli

• silliness

silliness

​The base word is silly.

The suffix - ness  means “the state or qualityof.” In some words ending in -y , the y  is changed to i  when the suffix-ness is added.

Multiple Choice

Choose the base word for emptiness.

• empty

• empti

• empitness

• em

emptiness

The base word is empty.

The suffix - ness  means “the state or quality of.” In some words ending in -y , the y  is changed to i  when the suffix-ness is added.

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Multiple Choice

Choose the base word for the word: beautiful

• beauty

• beauti

• beautiful

beautiful

​beauty

The suffixes -ful  and -y  can both mean “full of” or “having the character of.”

In some words ending in -y , the y  is changed to i

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Match

Match the base word to the word with a suffix

• terrible

• horrible

• insist

• disturb

terribly

horribly

insisted

disturbed

• terribly

• horribly

• insisted

• disturbed