Gain insight into your students’ understanding of using suffixes with this Suffix Worksheet Package.

This Suffix Worksheet Package focuses on the suffixes -er, -ed, -ing and -est.

With 10 worksheets in this package, there are lots of different ways for students to practise reading, writing, and defining words with suffixes. There are 5 different types of worksheets with 2 different levels for each.

The worksheets included in the Suffix Worksheet Package, which you can also download individually, are:

• Suffix Sailing: Read the definitions then select the correct word from the word bank that matches the definition. In the second version of this worksheet, some of the base words have the final consonant doubled (e.g. grinning) or the final /e/ dropped (e.g. baking).
• Suffix Snacks: Select the word with the correct suffix added to the base word to complete the sentences. Write the correct words at the bottom of the page. In the second version of this worksheet, some of the base words have the final consonant doubled (e.g. sitting) or the final /e/ or /y/ dropped (e.g. sliding, fluffiest).
• Suffix Stamps: Identify a suffix that can be added to the given base words then write the definitions of the new words.
• Suffix Surprises: Identify all of the suffixes that can be used to change the meaning of the given base words then write two examples.
• Suffix Swarms: Break the shown words into base words and suffixes. Draw a picture of the word.

The first page of each worksheet type has simpler base words and the second page has more challenging base words.

Are you teaching prefixes as well? Try the Prefix Worksheet Package.