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Grade 2 Reading & Writing · World 7: Word Workshop · Level 54
Suffixes
-ful, -less, -ly, -er.
Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.
What children learn in Level 54
- A suffix is a word part added to the end of a word. It changes the meaning too!
- Ful means full of: careful means full of care. Less means without: careless means without care.
- L y tells how: slowly means in a slow way. E r can mean a person who does something: a teacher is a person who teaches.
- Your turn! Tap where the suffix starts in fearless.
- Now build the word for a person who paints.
Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards:
- 2.L.V.2.a — Identify and use frequently occurring root words and affixes (e.g., prefixes, suffixes) to deconstruct words to determine or clarify meaning.
- 2.L.V.2.c — Construct words using frequently occurring root words and affixes.