Turning nouns and adjectives into verbs using the suffixes -ify and -ise
I can spell words using the suffixes -ify and -ise.
Turning nouns and adjectives into verbs using the suffixes -ify and -ise
I can spell words using the suffixes -ify and -ise.
These resources will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.
Lesson details
Key learning points
- The suffixes -ise and -ify often turn adjectives and nouns into verbs.
- When the root word ends in a consonant, we often just add the suffix.
- When the root word ends in a ‘y’, we remove the ‘y’ and add the suffix.
- When the root word ends in a vowel, we remove the final vowel and add the suffix.
- How to spell the curriculum words: exercise, criticise and consider.
Keywords
Root word - the base word from which other words are formed often by adding prefixes or suffixes
Suffix - a letter or group of letters added to the end of a word to change its meaning
Verb - a doing, being or having word
Adjective - describes a noun
Noun - a naming word for people, places or things
Common misconception
Pupils may spell words with -ize, how the suffix sounds and in the American spelling.
Discuss the difference between the American and British spelling of the suffix -ise.
Licence
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Lesson video
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Starter quiz
6 Questions
Remove the final vowel, then add the suffix.
Just add the suffix.
Double the consonant, then add the suffix.
No obvious root word.
Remove the final vowel, then add the suffix.
Just add the suffix
No obvious root word.
Exit quiz
6 Questions
Remove the final vowel, then add the suffix.
Just add the suffix.
No obvious root word.
Remove the 'y', then add the suffix.