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Year 6 · English

Use Prefixes And Suffixes

Year 6 learners practise common prefixes and suffixes spelling rules.

The activities include Know the Suffixes: -cede and -ceed, Know Your Prefixes: audi- and aqua-, Know Your Prefixes: micro- and photo-, and related practice. The checked support below includes teaching, lesson, video, worksheet. Open a resource in its provider's website and choose the format that best helps the learner explain the idea independently.

Activities covered

  • Know the Suffixes: -cede and -ceed
  • Know Your Prefixes: audi- and aqua-
  • Know Your Prefixes: micro- and photo-
  • Learn to Spell Words with the Prefix Connected with a Hyphen
  • Learn to Spell Words with the Suffixes -able, -ably
  • Learn to Spell Words with the Suffixes -ant, -ance, -ancy
  • Learn to Spell Words with the Suffixes -ent, -ence, -ency
  • Learn to Spell Words with the Suffixes -ible, -ibly

Checked learning resources

  • Oak: Letter strings, etymology and curriculum words

    Oak National Academy · Teaching · Opens on the provider website

    Oak Year 6/KS2 unit linked to common prefixes and suffixes spelling rules.

  • BBC Bitesize: Prefixes and suffixes

    BBC Bitesize · Teaching · Opens on the provider website

    BBC KS2 Prefixes and suffixes support for common prefixes and suffixes spelling rules.

  • Twinkl: -Ant, -Ance, -Ancy Spelling Rule - Year 6 SPaG Lesson Pack

    Twinkl · Lesson · Opens on the provider website

    Twinkl Year 6 resource linked to common prefixes and suffixes spelling rules.

  • Twinkl: Learning Ent, Ency and Ence Words Spelling Pack | Year 6

    Twinkl · Lesson · Opens on the provider website

    Twinkl Year 6 resource linked to common prefixes and suffixes spelling rules.

  • Using Prefixes | KS2 English Concept Video

    Twinkl · Video · Account may be required

    Explains how prefixes attach to the beginning of roots and alter meaning, with KS2 practice questions. The video teaches the prefix method; the accompanying spelling resource supplies the exact micro- and photo- examples

  • Using Hyphens to Join Prefixes to Root Words

    Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website

    Year 6 and upper-KS2 lesson video teaches joining prefixes to root words with hyphens, including re-enter and co-ordinate, and using hyphen punctuation to avoid ambiguity in meaning such as re-cover versus recover.

  • Prefixes micro- and mega-

    GreatSchools / Dorling Kindersley · Worksheet · Opens on the provider website

    KS2 ages 10 to 11 English vocabulary worksheet introducing the prefix micro- and giving sentence and new-word practice for spelling and using words beginning with micro-.

  • Root Word of the Week: photo

    Stellar Teaching Co. · Lesson · Opens on the provider website

    Upper-primary English vocabulary and spelling teaching and practice for the Greek root photo meaning light, using a repeated Root Word of the Week routine to build and practise words in the photo word family.