Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify the spelling and meaning of some different words with the suffix er and a set of differentiated worksheets to record the changes that can happen to a range of word roots when adding the suffix er to build new words to use in example sentences.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to add the suffix er to change the spelling and meaning of a range of different word roots.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to explain and model how to build a range of special words by combining some different roots with a selection of matching suffixes. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.