Word Study

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Word Study

• Suffixes -ly and -y

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Lets start with a review

• Youve learned about suffixes before
• Remember -er and -est?
• Those are suffixes!
• So.What are suffixes?

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A Suffix is

• A word part that is added to the END of a word
  and has a MEANING OF ITS OWN.
• So, you remember er means more than.
• You remember that est means what?
• Thats rightMost!
• So, it can be added to the word big est to
  change the meaning of big to the biggest of all!

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I ate this biggest sundae!
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There are LOTS of suffixes that we can attach to
base words.

• Youve mastered 2 -er and est.
• Ready for 2 more?
• Alright, if you insist

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-ly

• -ly by itself means in a way that is.
• Remember when I got up at 430am on Saturday
  instead of 730am (yes, its my make-believe
  example last time? I got up earlier, right?
• Well, youd better believe I was
• Sleepy!

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You know what I mean?
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So, I hit my snooze button, and grumbled. I went
back to sleep.

• Six minutes later at 436
• I hit the snooze button again, and went back to
  sleep
• At 442, the alarm rang again, and I got up. But
  you know how I got up?

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I got up

• In a way that was sleepy! Im a bottom liner
  (unlike Grandma, who has the grandma version of
  say things). I want to say how I got up with one
  word. Im going to attach a suffix to sleepy.
• Here goes
• When my alarm went off, I got up, sleepily.

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-ly

• Adding ly to my base word gives me a way to
  describe the way Im doing things.
• Would you like another example?

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Remember the Birthday Remix Sundae from Coldstone
Creamery?

• Guess how I ate it.
• Yes, I ate it hungrily.
• By the way, what spelling rule did I use to
  create this word?
• Yes, change the y to i and add ly. (That
  could be a good rap)

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Play my rap, then make your own suffix rap in
Audacity!
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Stop the slide show and add more examples of base
words with the ly suffix below

• Save the slide show to your H drive, then
  continue

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What does this sentence mean?

• I eagerly went to see the new Star Trek movie.
• (Okay, I wouldnt eagerly go. Id go because my
  husband and stepson, Devyn, dragged me there).
  But, for the exampleit means
• I went to the new Star Trek movie in a way that
  was eager. I was excited to go!

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Heres the next suffix -y

• -y by itself means made up of or like.
• If Im eating the new Volcano taco from Taco
  Bell, I might say that it is spicy.
• That means it
• Is made up of spice
• Tastes like spice
• Okay, you know it was comingwhat spelling rule
  did I use to create the word spicy?

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Spelling rule

• Spice y e spicy.
• What does snowy mean?
• Made up of snow, or like snow.
• The lifeguard trudged along the foggy beach.
• What does foggy mean?

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Foggy means

• Made up of fog or like fog. There was lots of
  fog on the beach that day.
• Whats the spelling rule you would use to create
  the word, foggy?
• Fog g y Foggy.

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• Try practice page 36 to practice some more with
  the suffixes ly and y.