Name ______Class ______Date ______

Using the Prefixes ir and il

Make these into words by adding auto or trans

_____responsible / _____relevant / _____luminate
_____resistible / _____regular / _____lusion
_____replaceable / _____legal / _____lustrations
_____reparable / _____legible / _____lness
_____removable / _____literate

Now put some of the words you have made into these sentences

  • There were lots of really colourful ______in the book.
  • Mr. Keast turned on the lights to ______the stage.
  • Some shapes are regular and some are ______.
  • Everyone knows that it is ______to steal things.
  • Mrs. Saleh thinks that chocolate is ______.
  • If you lose something and cannot get another to replace it, we say that it is ______.
  • If you did not come to school to learn to read and write you would be ______.
  • The car was so badly crushed in the accident it was ______and we had to have a new one.
  • When the magician did a trick we thought it was real magic, but it was just an ______.
  • If something is ______it means that you cannot remove it.
  • Mrs. Jaap couldn’t read William’s handwriting because it was so untidy, she said that it was ______.
  • Poor Fred had a terrible ______, he lay in bed covered in spots.
  • “Football has got nothing to do with our maths lesson,” said Miss Holmes, “it is completely ______.”
  • If you don’t look after your belongings and behave in a silly way we sometimes say that you are ______.

Draw pictures for each of these auto words

illuminate / illustrate / illness

Find and colour 14 ir and il words in the wordsearch

p / s / n / i / r / r / e / s / p / o / n / s / i / b / l / e / c / f / g / t / e / g / h / i
o / i / r / d / c / n / h / j / y / u / h / w / q / s / j / i / l / o / u / t / r / i / i / r
i / r / q / g / c / f / r / i / r / r / e / g / u / l / a / r / m / k / h / y / u / r / u / r
k / r / o / t / q / r / e / w / a / f / d / s / v / z / x / c / y / h / n / b / g / r / c / e
l / e / u / e / i / l / l / e / g / i / b / l / e / s / g / t / r / u / p / h / y / e / g / p
n / s / y / w / z / v / d / e / i / o / u / y / t / e / q / s / f / b / i / b / g / l / r / l
b / i / d / q / j / m / j / y / t / r / e / w / q / s / d / o / e / v / l / v / b / e / w / a
g / s / e / a / u / a / f / t / y / b / m / n / c / z / x / p / q / a / l / z / x / v / q / c
f / t / r / h / t / q / f / g / h / v / c / d / h / j / k / b / g / f / n / n / m / a / l / e
r / i / t / i / e / x / z / c / v / d / s / a / q / w / e / y / t / m / e / b / m / n / i / a
e / b / s / o / w / i / r / r / e / m / o / v / a / b / l / e / d / f / s / n / b / t / u / b
w / l / f / t / a / l / z / x / c / v / b / n / m / j / u / y / t / r / s / c / v / b / g / l
q / e / h / e / z / l / l / k / j / h / g / f / d / s / a / p / o / i / u / d / x / h / f / e
z / b / y / r / x / e / y / t / r / e / w / q / a / s / d / f / g / h / j / e / z / y / d / b
x / g / u / s / s / g / m / n / b / v / f / d / s / a / o / z / x / v / f / r / a / r / s / h
c / t / j / j / c / a / l / k / j / z / h / g / f / r / e / w / d / w / x / t / s / e / a / d
c / a / c / x / s / l / m / j / f / t / r / e / i / l / l / i / t / e / r / a / t / e / c / e
s / m / j / u / d / e / w / q / a / z / x / s / d / e / r / t / y / u / i / o / p / h / y / t
i / l / l / u / m / i / n / a / t / e / c / f / t / y / e / w / q / j / u / q / p / i / v / j
x / x / b / i / o / w / q / k / e / f / o / u / q / a / b / g / s / m / g / w / c / i / l / d
s / x / f / t / i / l / l / u / s / i / o / n / x / t / y / u / m / k / i / h / s / d / e / g
d / x / f / t / y / r / q / w / s / l / g / q / w / o / u / t / e / d / s / a / v / f / r / f
t / c / r / e / t / s / w / q / i / l / l / u / s / t / r / a / t / i / o / n / s / g / t / d
i / r / r / e / p / a / r / a / b / l / e / r / v / e / r / t / j / k / p / k / m / v / f / e

Now put these words into sentences of your own

in your word level book

1. irresponsible / 6. irregular / 11. illustrations
2. irresistible / 7. illegal / 12. illness
3. irreplaceable / 8, illegible
4. irreparable / 9. illiterate
5. irremovable / 10. illuminate

Find and colour 14 ir and il words in the wordsearch

i / r / r / e / s / p / o / n / s / i / b / l / e / i
i / i / r
r / i / r / r / e / g / u / l / a / r / r / r
r / r / e
e / i / l / l / e / g / i / b / l / e / e / p
s / i / l / l
i / l / e / a
s / l / v / c
t / n / a / e
i / e / n / a
b / i / r / r / e / m / o / v / a / b / l / e / s / t / b
l / l / s / l
e / l / e
e
g
a
l / i / l / l / i / t / e / r / a / t / e
i / l / l / u / m / i / n / a / t / e
i / l / l / u / s / i / o / n
i / l / l / u / s / t / r / a / t / i / o / n / s
i / r / r / e / p / a / r / a / b / l / e

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illness / illness / illness / illness / illness
illustrations / illustrations / illustrations / illustrations / illustrations
illegal / illegal / illegal / illegal / illegal
illiterate / illiterate / illiterate / illiterate / illiterate
illegible / illegible / illegible / illegible / illegible
illuminate / illuminate / illuminate / illuminate / illuminate
irresponsible / irresponsible / irresponsible / irresponsible / irresponsible
irresistible / irresistible / irresistible / irresistible / irresistible
irreplaceable / irreplaceable / irreplaceable / irreplaceable / irreplaceable
irreparable / irreparable / irreparable / irreparable / irreparable
irremovable / irremovable / irremovable / irremovable / irremovable
irregular / irregular / irregular / irregular / irregular

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illness / illness / illness / illness / illness
illustrations / illustrations / illustrations / illustrations / illustrations
illegal / illegal / illegal / illegal / illegal
illiterate / illiterate / illiterate / illiterate / illiterate
illegible / illegible / illegible / illegible / illegible
illuminate / illuminate / illuminate / illuminate / illuminate
irresponsible / irresponsible / irresponsible / irresponsible / irresponsible
irresistible / irresistible / irresistible / irresistible / irresistible
irreplaceable / irreplaceable / irreplaceable / irreplaceable / irreplaceable
irreparable / irreparable / irreparable / irreparable / irreparable
irremovable / irremovable / irremovable / irremovable / irremovable
irregular / irregular / irregular / irregular / irregular

Use the prefixes ir and il to make words

_____legal / _____responsible / _____resistible
_____literate / _____reparable / _____relevant
_____luminate / _____replaceable
_____lustrations / _____regular
_____legible / _____removable
  1. When my Mum lost the necklace her grandma gave her she said it was ______.
  2. The lump of chewing gum was stuck in Jane’s hair had to be cut out as it was ______.
  3. It is ______to steal cars.
  4. In maths we have been doing work on regular and ______polygons.
  5. When my bike fell off the roof rack of the car it was so badly damaged that it was ______.
  6. I switched on the lamp to ______my book.
  7. When I try to write with my left had the writing is ______.
  8. I love to draw ______to go with my stories.
  9. Some very poor people who cannot afford to go to school are ______because they can’t read or write.
  10. If you are not responsible for the things that you do we say that you are ______.
  11. If you have an ______urge to do something it means that you just can’t stop yourself.
  12. If something is ______it means that it has nothing to do with what you are talking about.