medical
traditional
stationary
historic
personal
dictionary
organic
salary
supersonic
capital
revolutionary
atomic
Spelling toolkit for words that have the suffix ‘al’, ‘ary’ or ‘ic’
◆ Many words in the English language have a group of letters at the end of them called a suffix.
These suffixes give the root word (such as medic) a different meaning (e.g. medic may become
medical).
◆al, ary and ic are known as vowel suffixes. These suffixes tell the reader that the word is
relating to the subject of the root word, e.g. personal relates to the person, and not many people.
◆ When adding these vowel suffixes the root word drops its final e (if it has one) and the suffix is
added. Or, if the root word ends in a y then this is changed to i before the suffix is added.
medical
traditional
stationary
historic
personal
dictionary
organic
salary
supersonic
capital
revolutionary
atomic
Spelling toolkit for words that have the suffix ‘al’, ‘ary’ or ‘ic’
◆ Many words in the English language have a group of letters at the end of them called a suffix.
These suffixes give the root word (such as medic) a different meaning (e.g. medic may become
medical).
◆al, ary and ic are known as vowel suffixes. These suffixes tell the reader that the word is
relating to the subject of the root word, e.g. personal relates to the person, and not many people.
◆ When adding these vowel suffixes the root word drops its final e (if it has one) and the suffix is
added. Or, if the root word ends in a y then this is changed to i before the suffix is added.
medical
traditional
stationary
historic
organic
personal
dictionary
salary
supersonic
capital
revolutionary
atomic
Spelling toolkit for words that have the suffix ‘al’, ‘ary’ or ‘ic’
◆ Many words in the English language have a group of letters at the end of them called a suffix.
These suffixes give the root word (such as medic) a different meaning (e.g. medic may become
medical).
◆al, ary and ic are known as vowel suffixes. These suffixes tell the reader that the word is
relating to the subject of the root word, e.g. personal relates to the person, and not many people.
◆ When adding these vowel suffixes the root word drops its final e (if it has one) and the suffix is
added. Or, if the root word ends in a y then this is changed to i before the suffix is added.
hopeful
fearful
wakeful
thankful
harmful
scornful
playful
boastful
faithful
beautiful
plentiful
fanciful
Spelling toolkit for words that contain the suffix ful
◆ ful is a suffix which means full of, but we drop the final l of full when affixing these
type of suffixes/prefixes to words (e.g. all and till become al and til, such as always and
until).
◆ When adding ful we change the y at the end of root words to i, e.g. beauty becomes
beautiful.
◆ All other words just add ful (and not full).
hopeful
fearful
wakeful
thankful
harmful
scornful
playful
boastful
faithful
beautiful
plentiful
fanciful
Spelling toolkit for words that contain the suffix ful
◆ ful is a suffix which means full of, but we drop the final l of full when affixing these
type of suffixes/prefixes to words (e.g. all and till become al and til, such as always and
until).
◆ When adding ful we change the y at the end of root words to i, e.g. beauty becomes
beautiful.
◆ All other words just add ful (and not full).
hopeful
fearful
wakeful
thankful
harmful
scornful
playful
boastful
faithful
beautiful
plentiful
fanciful
Spelling toolkit for words that contain the suffix ful
◆ ful is a suffix which means full of, but we drop the final l of full when affixing these
type of suffixes/prefixes to words (e.g. all and till become al and til, such as always and
until).
◆ When adding ful we change the y at the end of root words to i, e.g. beauty becomes
beautiful.
◆ All other words just add ful (and not full).
abandoned
familiar
boundary
abdominal
carpet
business
original
animal
predict
description
stationary
category
Spelling toolkit for polysyllabic words with unstressed vowels
◆ polysyllabic – more than one syllable.
◆ Unstressed vowels (also known as a schwa) – when a vowel sound is not stressed when
read within a word. For example, the i in business is not stressed (it may sound like
busyness if you did!)
◆ It’s tricky to learn how to spell these words. However, if you use related words (e.g.
station for stationary) then you may only have a small part of a word to learn. You may also
remember the spelling if you say the words how they may sound if they didn’t have the
schwa (e.g. Wednesday – sounds like wed-nes-day).
abandoned
familiar
boundary
abdominal
carpet
business
original
animal
predict
description
stationary
category
Spelling toolkit for polysyllabic words with unstressed vowels
◆ polysyllabic – more than one syllable.
◆ Unstressed vowels (also known as a schwa) – when a vowel sound is not stressed when
read within a word. For example, the i in business is not stressed (it may sound like
busyness if you did!)
◆ It’s tricky to learn how to spell these words. However, if you use related words (e.g.
station for stationary) then you may only have a small part of a word to learn. You may also
remember the spelling if you say the words how they may sound if they didn’t have the
schwa (e.g. Wednesday – sounds like wed-nes-day).
abandoned
familiar
boundary
abdominal
carpet
business
original
animal
predict
description
stationary
category
Spelling toolkit for polysyllabic words with unstressed vowels
◆ polysyllabic – more than one syllable.
◆ Unstressed vowels (also known as a schwa) – when a vowel sound is not stressed when
read within a word. For example, the i in business is not stressed (it may sound like
busyness if you did!)
◆ It’s tricky to learn how to spell these words. However, if you use related words (e.g.
station for stationary) then you may only have a small part of a word to learn. You may also
remember the spelling if you say the words how they may sound if they didn’t have the
schwa (e.g. Wednesday – sounds like wed-nes-day).