Suffixes That Change the Base Word
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Suffixes That Change the Base Word
A word reading worksheet for Grade 3 and Grade 4. Twelve words such as hoping, swimmer and happily, where the suffix dropped an e, doubled a letter or changed y to i. Read each one and write its base word and its suffix. With an answer key.
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Break a long word into prefix, base and suffix to read it, find the base when a suffix changed it (hoping, cried), read Latin suffixes such as -tion and -ture, and hear t and c change to sh (select, selection; music, musician).
Reviewed by Mrs. Sarah Thompson, Teacher and Ms. Rachel Wilson, Teacher. How we check worksheets
How to use this sheet
- Have the child cover the ending or the prefix with a finger, read the base word, then read the whole word.
- Ask what the ending or the prefix adds to the meaning: -ed means it already happened, un- means not.
- For -ed, have the child say the word aloud and listen for which of its three sounds it makes.
Common mistakes
- Reading -ed as a separate syllable every time, so "jumped" becomes "jump-ed". It often says /t/.
- Not finding the base word when its spelling changed, such as "hopping" from hop or "making" from make.
- Seeing a prefix in a word that does not have one, such as "un" in "uncle".
