3rd Grade Suffix -ity Worksheets
11 printable 3rd Grade vocabulary & word study worksheets on Suffix -ity. Every sheet has an answer key — 11 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: -ity and -al. Each sheet is marked with the week it was written for: weeks 29 to 35 of Phonics, Decoding, and Early Fluency, Grade 3. Every grade is on one page: Suffix Worksheets.
What is in this set: Sort And Write (5), Word Hunt (5) 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.
All 11 worksheets in this set
- Sort And Write 1: -ity and -al Free PDF
- Fluency 1 Free PDF
- Word Hunt 1: -ity and -al Free PDF
- Sort And Write 2: -ity and -al
- Word Hunt 2: -ity and -al
- Sort And Write 3: -ity and -al
- Word Hunt 3: -ity and -al
- Sort And Write 4: -ity and -al
- Word Hunt 4: -ity and -al
- Sort And Write 5: -ity and -al
- Word Hunt 5: -ity and -al
Teaching Suffix -ity
What it is
The suffix -ity makes a naming word out of a describing word, naming the quality itself: pure becomes purity, active becomes activity, real becomes reality, able becomes ability. The beat of the word falls on the syllable right before -ity. In Grade 3 -ity is sorted against -al: humanity, flexibility and capability on one side, medical, personal and original on the other.
When a child is ready
Teach it once the child works comfortably with describing words and reads four-syllable words.
If they struggle
Have the child finish the phrase 'the quality of being' out loud before writing anything. For spelling, a final e is dropped (pure, purity), and a base ending in -le shifts to -il (able, ability; possible, possibility), which is worth its own short list.
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