This term, I get to teach a boy for an hour every week. His teacher wanted me to focus on suffixes today.  

I saw this as a great chance for test whether he knew how to read some sight words from the Dolch list.  

He could read these words.  

Then, I taught him how to attach the suffix ‘-fly’ to these sight words. He was able to read helpful, playful, thankful and wishful.  

Since I was confident about his reading, I moved on to spelling. I got him to try to spell these words using coloured letters. I hoped that he would remember these words better because this was a hands-on activity.  

I stressed that we just need one ’l’ to spell the ‘-ful’ suffix. He remembered it.  

Lastly, I taught him how to attach the ‘-ly’ suffix to the words.  

| helpful | helpfully |

| playful | playfully |

| useful | usefully |

| thankful | thankfully |

I enjoyed building words with him through suffixes.

I hope he found the lesson meaningful.  

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Keeping the writing simple because I would get him to read this masterpiece. Thank you for reading.