Strengthen Vocabulary Skills Through Suffix Activities 

When your students make a commitment to their suffix studies, you’ll develop capable, interested language learners! 

This interactive language activity provides students with the opportunity to explore some common suffixes through a digital platform. Students will either drag-and-drop or type the answer to match suffixes with their meanings, words with suffixes, and transform incorrect phrases. 

Slides in this activity focus on the following suffixes: 

• -er
• -or
• -est
• -logy
• -ful
• -ed 
• -less
• -able
• -es
• -ies

Scaffolding + Extension Tips 

A team of dedicated, experienced educators created this resource to support your English program.

In addition to individual student work time, use these suffix activities to enhance learning through guided reading groups, whole-class lessons, or remote learning assignments. 

If you have a mixture of above- and below-level learners, we have a few suggestions for keeping readers on track with these concepts: 

🆘 Support Struggling Students

Many learners find visual references helpful when trying to grasp and review concepts. Provide students with learning tools like a suffix poster or classroom anchor chart to refresh their memories as they complete the activity.

➕ Challenge Fast Finishers

Using slide two as a reference, have students create lists of 2-3 different words per suffix. Additionally, students should define each word with its suffix and write it in a sentence. 

✋ Class Review

Turn this activity into a post-lesson assessment or use it before a test to give students extra revision. Project the activity onto your whiteboard and call on students to complete the activities. Alternatively, you could have students write the answers in their notebooks. 

No Preparation… Just Download and Go!

Use the Download button to access the interactive Google Slides document. Be sure to open in Edit mode, not Presentation mode.