Year 2 Daily Challenge - Tuesday 31st March 202030 March 2020 (by admin) |
Year 2 Daily Challenge!
Good morning everybody.
Today's Challenge is Phonics! I would like you to practise spelling words that end in the suffixes that we have been learning about in school. For you parents, suffixes are a group of letters that can be added to the end of a word to change its meaning e.g. swim, swimming, tall, taller.
For the challenge, long onto Espresso by searching www.discoveryeducation.co.uk and click on Espresso. The Username is: student31263 and the Password is: Thornhill
Once on, select KS1, English, then Grammar and Punctuation. When on this page select Word (you may need to scroll down). Watch the following clips all about adding a suffix to the end of a word.
Adding the suffixes -ness and -er to make nouns
Adding suffixes -ful and -less to make adjectives
Use of the suffixes -er and -est in adjectives
Using -ly to turn adjectives into adverbs
At the end of each clip you can carry out the activities to practise.
Extension: Rocket Race: Take one suffix at a time and see how many words you can record that end in this suffix. Remember that they must be spelt correctly. Start by writing the root word and then look at the last letters in the root word which then help you choose the correct spelling rule. Let's recap some of the spelling rules:
- Change the y to an i and add the suffix
- Drop the e and add the suffix
- Double the consonant and add the suffix
- Just add the suffix
Set the online stop watch to 3 minutes www.online-stopwatch.com . Which suffix were you able to record the most number of words for? Which suffix was the most trickiest? What other suffixes have we been learning about? You can do all of your recording in your Homework Book, it should all fit onto one page.
When you are reading a book, see if you can spot any words in the text that end in a suffix too.
Good luck everyone!
Mrs McNulty