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3rd Grade The -ate Suffix Worksheets

14 printable 3rd Grade vocabulary & word study worksheets on The -ate Suffix. Every sheet has an answer key — 14 in all. 3 activity types: Fluency, Sort And Write, Word Hunt. The first three worksheets are free to download; All Access opens the rest and every answer key.

On these sheets: -ate, -al and -ous; -ate, -ify and -ize; -ate and -ify. Each sheet is marked with the week it was written for: weeks 25 to 34 of Phonics, Decoding, and Early Fluency, Grade 3. Every grade is on one page: Suffix Worksheets.

What is in this set: Sort And Write (7), Word Hunt (6) and Fluency (1).

Practice pages support a program; they are not the lesson. These sheets reinforce Phonics, Decoding, and Early Fluency — Grade 3, the complete K–5 reading curriculum from Faith Readers. See every program →

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Includes 3 activity types: Fluency, Sort And Write, Word Hunt.

Sort And Write 1: -ate, -al and -ous Free Worksheet 1 of 14

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Fluency 1 Free Worksheet 2 of 14

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Word Hunt 1: -ate, -al and -ous Free Worksheet 3 of 14

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3rd Grade vocabulary & word study worksheet — The -ate Suffix. Sort And Write 2: -ate, -ify and -ize

Sort And Write 2: -ate, -ify and -ize All Access

3rd Grade vocabulary & word study worksheet — The -ate Suffix. Sort And Write 3: -ate, -ify and -ize

Sort And Write 3: -ate, -ify and -ize All Access

3rd Grade vocabulary & word study worksheet — The -ate Suffix. Word Hunt 2: -ate, -ify and -ize

Word Hunt 2: -ate, -ify and -ize All Access

3rd Grade vocabulary & word study worksheet — The -ate Suffix. Word Hunt 3: -ate, -ify and -ize

Word Hunt 3: -ate, -ify and -ize All Access

3rd Grade vocabulary & word study worksheet — The -ate Suffix. Sort And Write 4: -ate, -ify and -ize

Sort And Write 4: -ate, -ify and -ize All Access

3rd Grade vocabulary & word study worksheet — The -ate Suffix. Sort And Write 5: -ate, -ify and -ize

Sort And Write 5: -ate, -ify and -ize All Access

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All 14 worksheets in this set

Sort And Write 1: -ate, -al and -ous Free PDF
Fluency 1 Free PDF
Word Hunt 1: -ate, -al and -ous Free PDF
Sort And Write 2: -ate, -ify and -ize
Sort And Write 3: -ate, -ify and -ize
Word Hunt 2: -ate, -ify and -ize
Word Hunt 3: -ate, -ify and -ize
Sort And Write 4: -ate, -ify and -ize
Sort And Write 5: -ate, -ify and -ize
Word Hunt 4: -ate, -ify and -ize
Word Hunt 5: -ate, -ify and -ize
Sort And Write 6: -ate, -ify and -ize
Sort And Write 7: -ate, -ify and -ize
Word Hunt 6: -ate and -ify

Teaching The -ate Suffix

What it is

The suffix -ate makes a verb meaning to make or to do: to create is to make something new, to celebrate is to do something special for a happy day, to operate is to make a machine work, and to separate is to make things stand apart.

When a child is ready

Teach it once the child reads three-syllable words and divides them into parts.

If they struggle

The ending is said two ways. In a verb it has a long a: to separate the socks. In a describing word it is quick and soft: two separate rooms. Let the sentence decide which one is needed, then read it aloud.

This skill in other grades: Grade 2 · Grade 4 · Grade 5

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