Year 6 · SPaG · Summer: Consolidation: revising the tested content
Year 6 revision: prefixes, suffixes and word families worksheet and PowerPoint
To revise: prefixes and suffixes; word families; antonyms; synonyms.
What this sheet revises
Each question comes from one of the lessons below. If a question is tricky, look back at that lesson’s sheet and slides.
| Prefixes and suffixes | How prefixes and suffixes change the meaning of a word, and how the spelling changes. |
|---|---|
| Word families | Words that share a root and have related meanings: sign, signal, signature. |
| Antonyms | Words with opposite meanings, and prefixes that make the opposite. |
| Synonyms | Words with a similar meaning, and choosing the one that fits best. |
Key words
- prefix
- added to the start of a word
- suffix
- added to the end of a word
- root word
- the word you start with
- derived word
- a word made by adding a prefix or suffix
- word family
- words with the same root and related meanings
- root
- the part that carries the main meaning
- related
- connected in meaning
- look-alike
- a word that looks similar but is not related
What is on the worksheet
Every sheet for this lesson has a short teaching box and 12 questions that get gradually harder: 8 fluency questions, then 4 reasoning questions that ask pupils to explain or choose. A writing challenge follows. The questions use the same styles as the key stage 2 grammar and punctuation test (circle, underline, tick, fill the gap, add punctuation, rewrite, explain). They are written for this website, not copied from past papers.
All the answers are on the last page of the same editable Word file. New questions are made every time, so you can print a different sheet for every group or for homework. The same sheet code always gives the same sheet.
Writing challenge: Choose the lesson from this sheet that you found most difficult. Write three new questions of your own for a friend, with an answer sheet, then swap and mark each other’s work.
Pupil target: I can remember what I have learned and use it.
The PowerPoint
A 20-slide lesson deck for the same lesson: a starter that revisits earlier learning, key words, an I do and a You do question on each slide with a countdown timer, answers that appear one click at a time, and a challenge. Download the revision: prefixes, suffixes and word families PowerPoint.
Where this lesson fits
This is lesson 56 of 72 in the Year 6 SPaG scheme, in the Summer term, block “Consolidation: revising the tested content”. It is taught before the SATs grammar test in May.
Other lessons in this block
- Revision: relative clauses, phrases and clauses
- Revision: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and tenses
- Revision: pronouns, determiners, prepositions and sentences
- Revision: parenthesis, dashes and hyphens
- Revision: commas, apostrophes and speech
- Revision: colons, semi-colons, lists and notes
- Revision: synonyms and antonyms
- Revision: verbs, Standard English and formal writing
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