Click on the icon above to go to the 
BBC website and re-cap prefixes and suffixes
before you start this week's activities. 

Remember
MOST words add the suffix without
changing the root word.

Monday

Adding the suffix -ful
 

Some examples of the suffix -ful:

care- careful

play- playful

fear- fearful

Can you add -ful to these words ?

grace -

tear -

help -

colour - 

pain -

tear -
 

Choose three of these words to use in a sentence, write them in your busy book.

Can you think of any more words using this suffix?

Tuesday

Adding the suffix -less

Some examples of the suffix -less:

hope - hopeless

care - careless

fear- fearless

Can you add -less to these words?

head -

use -

end-

pain -

harm-

rest -

Choose three of these words to use in a sentence, write them in your busy book.

Can you think of any more words using the suffix -less?

Wednesday

Adding the suffix -ly
 

Some examples of the suffix -less:

bad - badly

quick - quickly

slow- slowly
 

Can you add -ly to these words ?

brave -

nice-

friend -

careful-

kind -

usual -

Choose three of these words to use in a sentence, write them in your busy book.

Can you think of any more words using the suffix -ly?

While MOST root words stay the same
when we add suffixes, this is not true
for ALL root words. 
When a word ends in  y  the rule changes.

Click on spell zone ^ to help you 
understand this rule more and practise 
spelling words using this rule.

Thursday

Adding suffixes to words ending in y

Change the y to an i before adding the suffix.

Some examples of changing the y to an i:

penny - penniless

happy - happily

plenty - plentiful

Add the suffixes -ful, -ly or -less to these words in your busy book. 
Use the y to i rule 

day -

easy-

lucky -

beauty -

busy -

angry- 

Friday

Let's review all of the suffixes we have learned about this week by adding them to these words:

- ful

colour- 

help -

pain -

-less

harm-

rest -

care -

-ly

quick-

slow -

sweet -

Now choose one word using each of these suffixes and put it into a sentence in your busy book. 

Do any of these words make sense if you swap the suffixes? In your busy book write a root word and see how many suffixes you can add that make sense. For example: 

careful and careless
 

Can you use your words in a sentence?