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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Overview of Adding Suffixes That Change Base Words' Final Y to I

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This resource has two sections: Adding Suffixes that Change Base Words' Final y to i, and video demonstration. It provides downloads of the following: lesson plans, lesson...
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Other

Prefixes Suffixes: Suffixes

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Learn seven rules for adding suffixes to words.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Overview of Adding Vowel Suffixes to Cvc and Silent E Base Words

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This resource has two sections: Overview of Adding Vowel Suffixes to CVC and Silent e Base Words, and video demonstration. It provides downloads of the following: lesson plans, lesson materials, word list, and video transcript.
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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: I Before E Except After C: 9 Helpful Spelling Rules

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides nine important spelling rules and examples. L.9-10.2c Spelling, L.11-12.2 Cap/Punc/Spell
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Other

Spelling Rules: Words Ending in Y

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Chart with rules and examples for adding suffixes to words that end in -y.
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Other

Spelling It Right: Spelling It Right: Adding a Suffix to Words Ending in Y

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
This is a reference page explaining the rules for adding a suffix to words ending in the letter Y.
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BBC

Bbc: Skillswise: Suffix Spelling Rules: Double Letters [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 5th
Learn when to double the final consonant of a word when adding a suffix, and when the consonant does not get doubled.
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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Hyphen With Suffix Elect

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Rules and examples for using a hyphen when adding the suffix -elect.
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Patsy Stevens

Garden of Praise: The 1 1 1 Spelling Rule

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Sheet music for a song about when to double the final consonant before adding suffixes.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Beware of Nominalizations (Aka Zombie Nouns)

For Students 9th - 10th
This video lesson focuses on removing nominalizations (long nouns made by adding suffixes to verbs, nouns, and adjectives) from your writing to make your sentences live instead of being a part of the living dead. Nominalizations impede...
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Other

Oxford Dictionaries: Words Ending in Sion, Tion, and Cion

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Learn the spelling rules involving when to use an "s," "t," or "c" when adding an "ion" suffix.
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Dave's ESL Cafe

Dave's Esl Cafe: Verb Forms and Verb Tenses #6: Spelling Ing Forms

For Students 3rd - 5th
Spelling rules and examples for adding the "ing" suffix to the ends of words.