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Grade 4 Reading & Writing · World 2: Root Ruins · Level 12
Spelling with Suffixes
Drop the e (hoping), double the consonant (hopping, beginning), change y to i (happiness), and -able versus -ible for common words.
Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.
What children learn in Level 12
- You know three spelling rules for adding a suffix: drop the silent e, double the last letter, and change y to i. Let's use them on bigger words.
- Drop the e before a vowel suffix: arrive, arrival. Change y to i: mystery, mysterious. But keep the y before i n g.
- Doubling is trickier in longer words. Listen for the loud syllable. In begin, the loud part is gin, at the end, so double the n: beginning.
- In open, the loud part is o, at the start, so don't double: opening. Visit, visited. Listen, listening.
- One more: a b l e or i b l e? Use a b l e after a whole word: readable, washable. Use i b l e when the part before isn't a word alone: visible, edible.
- Your turn! Sort these words by the rule they used.
Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards:
- 4.F.P.4.c — Decode and encode words with common prefixes and suffixes.