Suffixes and Affixes

Lesson Plan of Suffixes and practice of Affixes

English Grade V

Students’ learning Outcomes

· Recognize specific parts of words, including common inflectional endings, compound words and affixes.

Information for Teachers

· An affix: An affix is added to the root of a word to change its meaning.

· An affix added to the front of a word is known as a prefix. One added to the back is known as a suffix. Such as: incapable (The affix is the prefix in.) laughing(Thee affix is the suffix –ing)

· Affixes: prefixes and suffixes together are called affixes.

· Prefixes: When letters are added to the beginning of a root/base word to make a new word we call them prefixes.

· Suffixes: When letters are added to the end of a root/base word to make a new word we call them suffixes. Such as “smokeless” is formed by adding the suffix “-less” to the noun “smoke.” “Sadly” is formed by adding the suffix “-ly” to the adjective “sad.”

· The four most common suffixes are-ed, -ing, -ly, and -es.

· Root word or base word is the main word on which inflection is done or to which we add prefixes or suffixes

· Compound Word: When two words join together to make a new word, the new word is called a compound word. Such as apple + sauce, Earth + quake, brain + storm, ear + rings, finger+ prints etc.

· Compound words are written in different ways: sometimes they are written as one word e.g. ‘armchair’, ‘sunflower’, sometimes with the words separated by hyphen- e.g. “gear -change”, “fruit-cake” etc.

Material / Resources

Chalk/marker, board, flashes cards of root words and suffixes, textbook,

Worm up activity

· Hold a pencil in your hand and ask the students, ‘What am I holding?

· Write the word pencil on the board.

· Hold another pencil in your hand and repeat the question.

· Write ‘pencils’ on the board in colored chalk against the word ‘pencil’.

· Ask a student to jump in the class.

· Write the word jump on the board.

· Ask the students, “What did he do? Answer can be: He was jumping or he jumped.

· Write the words ‘jumping’ and ‘jumped’ against the word jump on the board.

· Inform the students that:

o When we talk about more than one thing, we add a‘s’ to it. This makes the word plural.

o When we talk about an action that has already been done, it becomes past or continuous and can add the letter –ed or –ing to the verb.

Development

Activity 1

· Inform the class that new words can be made by adding some letters to the end of the root words. These letters are called suffixes.

· Paste the flash cards on the board. Such as:

Sad	+	Ly
Perfect	+	Ly
Happy	+	Ly
Glad	+	Ly
Mouth	+	Full
Beauty	+	Full
Care	+	Full
Care	+	Less
Meaning	+	Less
Friend	+	Less
Walk	+	Ed
Jump	+	Ed

· Ask the students to pronounce the words.

· Teach the students that some root words will change spellings when a suffix is added to them e.g. beauty + full =beautiful.

· Teach them that the last ‘I’ of ‘full’ runs away when it is added to a root word. E.g. beautiful.

· Students should write more words in the notebooks.

Activity 2

AFFIXES PRACTICE ACTIVITY

· Each of the words below has a prefix or suffix or both. Find the base word:

1. ____________precooked. 9. _________discussion.

2. ____________impolite. 10. ________disagreement.

3. ____________Unpopulated. 11. ________inventor.

4. ____________indebted. 12. _______renewal.

5. ____________announcement. 13. _______Pleasure.

6. ___________disturbance. 14. ________talkative.

7. ___________courageous. 15. ________inconvenient.

8. ___________energetically. 16. ________ substandard.

Answer key:

(1. Cook, 2. Polite, 3. Populate 4. Debt, 5. Announce 6. Disturb 7. Courage, 8. Energy, 9.Discuss, 10. Agree, 11.invent, 12.new, 13.please, 14.talk, 15.convene, 16.standard)

Activity 3

· Write a root word in the box. Add the following prefixes or suffixes given in the box to the root word to make a meaningful word. Then write complete word in the blank. (first one has been for you)

· Please note whenever a prefix or suffix can’t be added leave the box blank.

im	un	Re
full	ly	less

Prefix

Root Word

Possible

Suffix

Impossible

Prefix	Root Word	Suffix

Sum up / Conclusion

· Ask students the function of the inflections/suffixes and definition of compound words.

· Why do we add s, es, ed and ing at the end of words?

· Give some suffixes and their root words.

Assessment

· Assess students’ understanding through responses and written work.

Follow up

· In your notebooks write,

o 5 action you did in the evening (words ending in ed and ing) underline the root word and circle the inflection in each action.

o 5 things from your house (words ending in s and es ). Underline identifies the root word and circle the inflection in each action.

· Write five words with suffixes.