Year 3 English · Prefixes and suffixes · Summary
Year 3 English Prefixes and suffixes: summary and key words
Part of the Year 3 English prefixes and suffixes chapter. Chapter overview · whole chapter on one page
Chapter summary
| Skill | Method |
|---|---|
| un-, dis-, mis-, re- | unkind, unhappy, undo, unlock; dislike, disagree, dishonest, disobey; misread, mislead, misspell, misplace; rewrite, reuse, rebuild, refill, replay |
| in-, im-, il-, ir- | incorrect, inactive, incomplete, inexpensive (in-); impossible, impatient (im- before p); illegal (il- before l); irregular, irrelevant (ir- before r) |
| sub-, inter-, super-, anti-, auto- | submarine, submerge, subtitle; interact, interrupt, international, interview; superhero, supermarket, superpower; antiseptic, anticlockwise; automatic, autograph, automobile |
| -ly and -ous | happily, quickly, truly, gently, simply, fully, suddenly, carefully; dangerous, nervous, enormous, mysterious, marvellous, jealous, anxious, curious |
| -ation, -tion, -sion, -ssion, -cian | information, creation, invitation; station, action, question; vision, division, decision; permission, discussion; musician, magician |
| -sure and -ture | treasure, pleasure, measure; picture, creature, adventure, future |
| -ful, -ness, -less, -ment | helpful, playful, beautiful; kindness, happiness, sadness; careless, hopeless; enjoyment, payment, excitement |
| Adding endings (the doubling rule) | forgetting, preferred, beginning, admitted (double the last letter); gardening, limiting, visiting, offering (no double) |
| Word families | solve, solution, solver, dissolve, insoluble |
| Statutory word list, part 2 (interest to woman) | interest, interesting, island, knowledge, length, library, material, medicine, mention, minute, natural, naughty, notice, occasion, occasionally, often, opposite, ordinary, particular, peculiar, perhaps, popular, position, possess, possession, possible, potatoes, pressure, probably, promise, purpose, quarter, question, recent, regular, reign, remember, sentence, separate, special, strange, strength, suppose, surprise, thought, through, various, weight, woman, women |
Can you…?
- I can say what a prefix and a suffix are, and how each one changes the meaning of a word
- I can spell words with un-, dis-, mis- and re-, and with in-, im-, il- and ir-
- I can spell words with sub-, inter-, super-, anti- and auto-
- I can spell words with the endings -ly, -ous, -ful, -ness, -less and -ment
- I can spell words with -ation, -tion, -sion, -ssion, -cian, -sure and -ture
- I can double the last letter before an ending when the rule says so
- I can build a word family from a root word
- I can spell the second half of the statutory word list, from interest to woman
Key terms
- prefix
- a group of letters added to the start of a root word, which changes its meaning, such as un- in unkind
- suffix
- a group of letters added to the end of a root word, such as -ly in quickly
- root word
- a word on its own, to which a prefix or suffix can be added, such as kind in unkind
- adjective
- a word that describes a thing, such as quick
- adverb
- a word that tells how something is done, such as quickly
- word family
- a group of words that are built from the same root word, such as solve and solution
- stress
- the part of a word that is said loudest, such as the end of forget
- statutory word list
- a list of words that pupils should be able to spell correctly by the end of Year 4