Teaching Suffixes S and ES

The video tutorial covers teaching the suffixes S and ES to students, focusing on their application to nouns and verbs. It includes phonemic awareness activities, explicit teaching strategies, and extension activities to reinforce learning. The tutorial is divided into two days, with the first day focusing on S and the second on ES. The video also offers a freebie with teaching slides and activities.

What is the primary focus of the video tutorial?

• Teaching root words

• Teaching suffix ED

• Teaching suffixes S and ES

• Teaching prefixes

At what grade level is the skill of adding suffixes S and ES primarily taught?

• Second grade

• First grade

• Third grade

• Kindergarten

What is a root word?

• A word that is always singular

• A word that is always plural

• A word that cannot stand alone

• A word that can stand alone

What change occurs when adding S to a noun?

• It becomes a verb

• It becomes singular

• It becomes plural

• It becomes an adjective

When do we add S to a verb?

• When talking in past tense

• When talking in third person

• When talking in second person

• When talking in first person

What sound does the suffix S make when added to a root word ending in a voiceless sound?

• T sound

• F sound

• Z sound

• S sound

Which of the following is a voiced sound?

• F

• K

• B

• P

When do we add ES instead of S to a root word?

• When the root word is a verb

• When the root word ends in S, Z, X, CH, or SH

• When the root word ends in a consonant

• When the root word ends in a vowel

What is the focus of the two-day lesson plan?

• Teaching suffixes S and ES

• Teaching prefixes

• Teaching root words

• Teaching phonics

What is the first step in the lesson plan for teaching suffix S?

• Explicit teaching

• Decoding practice

• Phonemic awareness

• Encoding practice