AC9E5LY10 Year 5 English

Content descriptor explore less common plurals, and understand how a suffix changes the meaning or grammatical form of a word

Elaborations

• • Elaboration using knowledge of word origins and roots, and related words, to interpret and spell unfamiliar words, and learning about how these roots affect plurals; for example, “cactus” and “cacti”, “louse” and “lice”
• • Elaboration understanding how some suffixes change the grammatical form of words; for example, “-tion” and “-ment” can change verbs into nouns: “protect” to “protection” and “develop” to “development”