the suffix ous – dice game

Put your children in pairs to play the fun spelling game ‘VictoriOUS’. It’s a two player dice game that enables children to learn these four rules for adding the suffix ‘ous’:

1. Some root word do not change – just add ‘ous’
2. For many root words that end in e, take off the ‘e’ and add ‘ous’
3. If the root word ends ‘-ge’, keep the ‘e’ and add ‘ous’
4. Change the ‘y’ to an ‘i’ and add ‘ous’
5. How about words that can’t have the ‘ous’ suffix?

Peer assessment is built in. Everything that you need is here – just add 1-6 dice!