Lesson Plan
Searching for Suffixes
Invite your students to join the search for suffixes! In this lesson students will locate similar words that have gone through a suffix transformation. In addition to the mechanics, students will explore the meaning behind each word!
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Learning Objectives
- Students will be able to determine and identify changes in word structure when suffixes are added to existing words.
- Students will be able to explain subtle differences in word and sentence meaning when identifying words with and without suffixes in context.
Introduction
(5 minutes)- List the following words on the board: verb, noun, adjective, and adverb.
- Draw a line under each word and invite the students to share an example of each part of speech.
- Tell the students that they will be learning how to recognize how suffixes impact different words and the corresponding context in which the words are used.