Australian Curriculum V8
ACELA1779
Understand how to use knowledge of letter patterns including double letters, spelling generalisations, morphemic word families, common prefixes and suffixes and word origins to spell more complex words
Elaborations
- applying generalisations for adding affixes, for example 'hope' and 'hoping', 'begin' and 'beginning', 'country' and 'countries' (Skills: Literacy)
- building morphemic word families and exploring word origins, for example the prefix 'nat' means source, birth or tribe in 'nature', 'natural' and 'native' (Skills: Literacy)
- building morphemic word families and exploring word origins, for example 'tricycle', 'triangle' and 'triple' (Skills: Literacy)
- using knowledge of common prefixes and suffixes to spell words and explore their meaning, for example 'friendly', 'calmly' and 'cleverly' and 'misfortune' (Skills: Literacy)
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teaching resources for those 'aha' moments
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Printable Vocabulary Games - Playing with Prefixes
Practise building and using words with common prefixes with a fun prefix vocabulary game.
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Google Slides Interactive - Prefixes Activity
Practise adding prefixes to words by identifying, defining, and matching them in context.
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Suffix Practice - Interactive Activity
Practise adding suffixes to words by identifying, defining and matching them in context.
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-Ty and -Ity Suffixes Worksheet
Practise using the suffixes -ty and -ity with a printable suffix worksheet.