Grade 5 Vocabulary, Morphology & Word Study: Adding the Suffix -able
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Teaching Adding the Suffix -able
What it is
The suffix -able means able to be done: readable, breakable, enjoyable, comfortable. It usually attaches to a word that could stand alone (agree, agreeable), and a silent e is normally dropped first (move, movable).
When a child is ready
Teach it once the child spells base words reliably and has met the drop-the-e rule with -ing and -ed.
If they struggle
Cover the ending and ask whether what is left is a whole word; if it is, -able is the likely spelling. The exception worth learning is that the e stays after a soft c or g, noticeable and changeable, because it is holding the soft sound in place, and saying the word without it shows why.
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