During our last tutoring session today, Sultan
and I worked on suffixes. I did this by showing him a list of suffixes and what
they meant and words that could serve as examples for displaying those suffixes.
Then we would underline the suffix, go over the meaning of the suffix and how it
connected to the word. Lastly, I would write an example sentence so that he
could see how the word was used. The hardest part about suffixes seemed to be
the fact that unlike prefixes, suffixes can change not only the meaning of the
word, but can also alter its grammatical function. This confused Sultan when I
showed him that the word “read” could change to a verb, noun or adjective
depending on the suffix used. I’ve noticed that changing the form of a word is
very difficult for him, and so we spent a lot of time dissecting how different
suffixes like –er and –able grammatically changed the word read. I explained to
him that read was a verb, reader was a noun, and readable was an
adjective.
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