WORDS ENDING IN -ENT -ENCE -ENCY: WORKSHEETS WITH ANSWER KEY - 18 EXERCISES

These Worksheets with Answer Key are perfect for teaching Words Ending in -ent, -ence and -ency. These no prep activities would be great for ELA lessons or ELA centers. Your students will love these grade-appropriate exercises that are well planned for student engagement.

After attempting these New Bloom’s Taxonomy based activities students will be able to:

• Use suffixes based on the spelling rules and meanings to form nouns and adjectives from the given verbs.
• Use the root words (verbs and nouns) to form –ent, -ence and –ency words.
• Add the correct suffixes –ent, -ence or -ency to complete the stem words.
• Use suffixes –ent, -ence and –ency to form words and use roots as clues to the meaning of new words.
• Assess and evaluate the correct use of suffixes –ent, -ence and –ency in forming new words.
• Create new word patterns with words ending in –ent, -ence and –ency to use in writing.

This download includes:

• EXERCISE 1: Use suffixes based on the spelling rules and meanings to form –ent, -ence and –ency words (nouns or adjectives) from the given verbs or stem words.
• EXERCISE 2: Use the root words (verbs and nouns) to form –ent, -ence and –ency words.
• EXERCISE 3: Add suffixes –ent, -ence and –ency to root words (verbs) to form nouns or adjectives.
• EXERCISE 4: Use the stem words to list words that end in all the three suffixes –ent, -ence and –ency.
• EXERCISE 5: Add correct suffixes to stem words to complete the words.
• EXERCISE 6: Choose the correct word from each set of words from the brackets to fill in each blank.
• EXERCISE 7: Use suffix –ent to form words and determine the meaning of new words.
• EXERCISE 8: Use suffix -ence to form words and use roots as clues to the meaning of new words.
• EXERCISE 9: Use suffix -ency to form new words.
• EXERCISE 10: Assess and evaluate the correct use of suffixes –ent, -ence and –ency in forming new words.
• EXERCISE 11: Demonstrate the mastery of using words ending in –ent, -ence and –ency in writing.
• EXERCISE 12: Use –ent words from the brackets to complete each of the sentences below.
• EXERCISE 13: Use -ence words from the list to complete each of the sentences below. Use each word only once.
• EXERCISE 14: Add –ancy or –ency to complete the words in the sentences below.
• EXERCISE 15: Use verbs as root words to form adjectives ending in -ent and nouns ending in -ence.
• EXERCISE 16: Add suffixes –ent, –ence or –ency (as indicated) to the verbs (root words) to form nouns.
• EXERCISE 17: Change the adjectives ending in –ent to nouns ending in –ence.
• EXERCISE 18: Change the adjectives ending in –ent to nouns ending in –ency.