Lily Kalczewski

2015
Teacher: Mrs. Drake
Grade: Second
Subject: Literacy

Date: Thursday October 15,

Time: 10:00

Title: Suffix Introduction

Essential Question: What is a suffix and how does its addition to a
base word affect the meaning of the word?
Standards:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.2.3.D
Decode words with common prefixes and suffixes.
Learning
Objectives:
Students will be able
to properly add a
suffix to a base
word.
Students will be able
to decode words
with common suffix
endings.

Assessments:
Students will complete an activity sheet in
which they will come up with words that have
a suffix.
Students will be able to draw a picture to
accompany one of their words that they came
up with which will allow the teacher to see if
the student understands the new meaning of
the word.

Materials:

Happy Endings by Robin Pulver

Poster board
-er, -s, -ing, -ed poster boards
Suffix activity sheet

Prior Knowledge: Students should know what a prefix is and where it

goes in regards to the base word.
Lesson Beginning:
The teacher will call students to the carpet by their groups. The
teacher will write the word helpful on the board. She will ask the
students if they can identify the base word (help). Then she will explain
that ful is the suffix or the ending of the word. The teacher will define

what a suffix is. For example, --ed added to help makes the word past
tense. The teacher will introduce the story, Happy Endings.
Instructional Plan:
After the endings are introduced in the story, the teacher will call on
students to volunteer a base word that goes with each suffix. The
teacher will write these words out on poster board. The teacher will
stop reading at one point and ask the students if they have any more
words from the story that they would like to add to the poster board.
Next, the teacher and students will decipher the suffixes clues from the
story. The teacher will have an example clue written out from the story
and the teacher will call on students raising their hands to identify
where the suffixes are in the scrambled word and explain where the
suffix is supposed to go.
After the story is finished, the teacher will call the students by their
groups to return to their desks. Then the teacher will give each student
a suffix activity sheet to complete where they will write three words to
accompany the four suffixes provided. Following this, each group will
have a poster board of a suffix. The students will write one or two
words down and then the poster boards will be passed clockwise so
that each group of students can write a word down for the four suffix
poster boards.
Differentiation: If students are having difficulty thinking of three words,
then they only have to write one. If students finish early, they can draw
pictures to accompany their words as to demonstrate their
understanding of the meaning of the words when a suffix is added. Or
if the students want more of a challenge, the teacher will ask them to
write three words each for the less suffix and the ful suffix.
Transitions: The teacher will call students to the carpet by their group
names and have them go back to their seats in the same fashion.
Management: If students are getting too loud, the teacher will ring the
bell or clap her hands in which the students will respond by clapping
back.
Questions:
1. What is a prefix?
2. What is a suffix?
3. Where do you put a suffix in regards to the base word?
4. How does a suffix change the meaning of a word?

5. Can you think of a word that ends with -er(more or someone who
does something), -s(plural), -ing(happening now), --ed (already
happened)?
Closure:
Students will share some of the words they came up with from the
suffix poster boards with the class. If there is time, the teacher will
show students the prefix and suffix song video.