Lesson Plan
Word Meaning with Common Suffixes
Are you careful, caring, or careless? A suffix is a word part that changes the meaning of a word. Use this lesson with your students to teach them how to determine word meaning based on their understanding of the meaning of common suffixes.
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Learning Objectives
Students will be able to determine the meaning of words with common suffixes.
Introduction
(5 minutes)- Instruct students to take out a whiteboard and a whiteboard marker.
- Display the following words on the board, and number them: 1. caring 2. careless 3. careful
- Assign each student a number from one to three, which corresponds to one of the displayed words.
- Have students write down a definition of the word which they were assigned.
- Call on non-volunteers to share their definitions. Confirm or adjust their definitions, explaining how the suffix on the word helps to formulate the word’s meaning.
- Instruct students to put away their whiteboards and markers for now.