What Is a Suffix?

Learn what suffixes are and what they do in this informative worksheet! Learners are first told that suffixes are letters added to the end of a word to change the meaning, then shown an example with the word duckling. Finally, students will pick out all the words with suffixes from a group of words.

This worksheet is a great resource for introducing second graders to suffixes and affixes. Use this worksheet to give students practice identifying base words and the suffixes attached to them. The ability to identify and understand suffixes is an important decoding skill that can help students better understand words they don’t immediately recognize. 

For more practice with suffixes, check out Suffixes: Parts of the Job, Identify Base Words, Prefixes, and Suffixes, and Word Patterns in Sentences Level 1.