Suffixes Ment Ness Ful Less and Ly

Year 2 EnglishSpelling3 pages

About this worksheet

The factory robots have dropped a pile of new words, and Year 2 pupils sort all 15 into three packing boxes by suffix. The boxes are -ness or -ment, -ful or -less, and -ly, with words from enjoyment and fearless to brightly and happily. A reminder points out that some root words change y to i. In the Quality Control section, pupils pick the trickiest word and add a new word to each box. Three pages, with the full sort in the answer key. Covers the England National Curriculum spelling objectives.

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Curriculum objectives covered

Spelling

โ€œAdd suffixes to spell longer words, including -ment, -ness, -ful, -less, -lyโ€

The word bank uses all five suffixes: -ment, -ness, -ful, -less and -ly.

Spelling

โ€œApply spelling rules and guidance, as listed in English Appendix 1โ€

Question 1 points to happiness and happily, where the y in happy changes to i.

What's inside this worksheet

Word Bank

Fifteen words to sort into a three-column table, such as sadness, movement, hopeless, thankful and slowly.

Quality Control

Pupils explain which word was hardest to sort, with a hint about y changing to i, then add one new word to each column.

How teachers use it

Moveable sort

Cut up the word bank so pupils can move words between boxes before they decide.

After direct teaching

Use it once you have taught the five suffixes, then go through question 1 as a class.

Class word lists

Collect the new words from question 2 into a class list for each suffix.

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