Ful or Less, Choose the Suffix

Read each sentence aloud with both choices so your child can hear which one fits. Ask when it happened or how many things are compared. Check with the answer key.

Choose ful or less in 8 sentences, writing words like careful, cloudless and colorful. A suffix is a word part added to the end of a base word, the word you start with. The suffix -ful means full of, and -less means without. The directions on the page read: Read each sentence. Circle the suffix that makes sense with the bold base word. Then, write the whole new word on the line. An answer key is included.

Yes, both. We made it for 2nd Grade affixes and compound words, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens with identify suffixes. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

Use ed for something that already happened, as in Yesterday we planted seeds. Use ing after is or are for something happening now, as in The birds are singing.

Er compares two things, as in Ben is taller than his sister. Est compares three or more, as in Of the three dogs, Rex is the fastest.

Yes. All 5 identify suffixes sheets have an answer key.