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Prefixes and Suffixes Posters
A set of educational posters for explaining some common prefixes and suffixes.
Prefixes are added to the beginning of a word to make a new word.
Suffixes are added to the end of a word to make a new word.
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NSW Curriculum alignment
- EN1-5A
Uses a variety of strategies, including knowledge of sight words and letterรขโฌโsound correspondences, to spell familiar words
- EN2-5A
Uses a range of strategies, including knowledge of letterรขโฌโsound correspondences and common letter patterns, to spell familiar and some unfamiliar words
- EN3-4A
Draws on appropriate strategies to accurately spell familiar and unfamiliar words when composing texts
Victorian Curriculum alignment
- VCELA312
Understand how to use banks of known words, syllabification, spelling patterns, word origins, base words, prefixes and suffixes, to spell new words, including some uncommon plurals
- VCELA263
Understand how to use letterรขโฌโsound relationships and less common letter combinations to spell words
- VCELA217
Learn some generalisations for adding suffixes to words
- VCELA354
Understand how to use banks of known words, word origins, base words, prefixes, suffixes, spelling patterns and generalisations to spell new words, including technical words and words adopted from other languages
Australian Curriculum alignment
- ACELA1485
Understand how to use letter-sound relationships and less common letter patterns to spell wordsElaborationsusing sound and visual spelling strategies to explore less common letter patterns after a short vowel, for example words that end in รขยยdgeร...
- ACELA1513
Understand how to use knowledge of known words, base words, prefixes and suffixes, word origins, letter patterns and spelling generalisations to spell new wordsElaborationstalking about how suffixes change over time and new forms are invented to refl...
- ACELA1526
Understand how to use knowledge of known words, word origins including some Latin and Greek roots, base words, prefixes, suffixes, letter patterns and spelling generalisations to spell new words including technical wordsElaborationsusing a dictionary...
- ACELA1472
Build morphemic word families using knowledge of prefixes and suffixesElaborationsdiscussing how a prefix or suffix affects meaning, for example in the word รขยยpaint-erรขยย the suffix รขยยerรขยย means รขยยone whoรขยย, so a painter is รขย...

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Fantastic! Thank you very much. It’s great how you have identified the alignment with the national curriculum.
sarahj15 ยท Dec 15th, 2014
You’re welcome Sarah. Yes, the National Curriculum alignment is a new feature we’re working very hard to have up and running next month for the start of the new school year. It’s great to hear your positive feedback about the feature!
ยท Dec 15th, 2014