This activity also incorporates a valuable oral language component that benefits ELL students. The explicit nature of this instruction is particularly helpful for ELL students who may benefit from being explicitly taught how inflectional endings are used in English. For example, adding "s" means that there is more than one of something or adding an apostrophe-s means that something belongs to someoneĪdditional Comments: - This activity is best implemented when students have already learned about the meaning of different inflection endings and have experience applying them to words. Teach inflectional endings for nouns as well as verbsĪ. Indicate that students' writing can be silly in nature as the goal is simply for them to practice using the inflectional endings as often as possible Encourage students to apply the various inflectional endings to the root word as many times as possibleī. Quick Tips Activity Extensions: - Have students select one of the root words and incorporate it into a writing exerciseĪ. Repeat steps 3 through 6 for all root words Outline the two different types of inflectional endings your class will be studying today.
Invite a student to underline or circle the inflectional ending with a different colored marker Define an inflectional ending as a group of letters added to the end of a word. Inflected or inflectional endings are a category of suffixes, which are word parts that you add to the end of other words to change their grammatical properties. Write the newly created word on the chart paper Once an inflectional ending is successfully applied, have students use the word in a sentence Go through each inflectional ending and have students indicate if it makes sense when applied to the word Write a root word (a verb) on the chart paper and ask students to determine which inflectional endings can be applied to the word Review how each inflectional ending is usedįor example, -ed can be used to indicate the past tense, and - s or - es are used in the present tense for the third person singular You may need to review the meaning of “inflectional endings” and stress that these are parts added to the end of verbs that transform their spelling and meaning in a consistent way Infectional endings include -s, -es, -ing, -ed.
A base word can stand alone and has meaning (for example, cat, bench, eat, walk). Have students list the inflectional endings they have learned An infectional ending is a word part that is added to the end of a base word that changes the number or tense of a base word. Select 5-10 verbs or root words that can have inflectional endingsįor example, “cook” as in “cooking”, “cooks”, and “cooked” “wear” as in “wearing” and “wears” or “jump” as in “jumping”, “jumps” or “jumped”
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