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Objectives
To identify adverbs.
To revise how the spelling of adjectives changes when they become adverbs.
Resources
Blank or lined paper | 📄 Posters on -ly Suffix | 📄 Adding -ly Suffix Activity
Today's Lesson
Spelling
Review spelling words to prepare for your test at the end of the week. You can choose any resource from Spelling Frame to help learn this week's words.
Main Activity
Remind your student that just a couple weeks ago, you learnt about adverbs. Remind them that adverbs modify verbs – like prepositional phrases – they tell us more about how, when or where someone does something or something happens.
Explain that sometimes the suffix -ly can be added to an adjective to form an adverb. Show your student the posters to help explain the rules.
The -ly suffix starts with a consonant letter, so it is added straight on to most root words unless they end with y:
sadly, completely, quickly, slowly, usually (usual+ly), finally (final+ly).
If the root word ends with y, the y is changed to i:
happily, angrily, crazily
Exceptions:
- If the root word ends with -le, the -le is changed to -ly : gently, simply, humbly, nobly.
- If the root word ends with -ic, -ally is added rather than just -ly, except in the word publicly: basically, frantically, dramatically.
- The words truly, duly, and wholly.
Now your student knows the rules, ask them to complete the Adding -ly Suffix Activity.