Key Stage Two : English : Year Six Planning : Detective Stories : Lesson One – Word Suffixes


This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to identify and record how words change their spelling and meaning when suffixes are added to word roots. The class can explain how authors plant clues and questions in the mind of a reader when writing a detective story.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to identify and record how words change their spelling and meaning when suffixes are added to word roots

Learning Objectives

Use further suffixes and understand the guidance for adding them. Discuss and evaluate how authors use language considering the impact on the reader.

Learning Outcomes

I know that the suffix able can be added to root words when there is a related word with the suffix ation. I can identify how an author has used vocabulary and sentences to in a detective story.

Word Suffixes

Teaching sequence to help the children identify and record how words change their spelling and meaning when suffixes are added to word roots

Suffixes Word Board (support)

Activity to help the children select and record how words change their spelling and meaning when the suffix able is added to word roots

Suffixes Word Board (core)

Activity to help the children select and record how words change their spelling and meaning when the suffix able is added to word roots

Suffixes Word Board (extension)

Activity to help the children select and record how words change their spelling and meaning when the suffix able is added to word roots

Word Suffixes

Interactive activity to help the children identify and record how words change their spelling and meaning when suffixes are added to word roots

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to identify and record how words change their spelling and meaning when suffixes are added to word roots

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