Phonics: Module 16, Lesson 1 (Day 76): Inflectional Endings

Phonics: Lesson 1 - Identifying Inflectional Endings

Introduction

Today, you will identify, read, and spell words with inflectional endings.

We are going to learn about inflectional endings. An inflectional ending is a word part that is added to the end of a base word that changes the number or tense of a base word. Today, we are going to focus on identifying and spelling words with -ed and -ing. These endings are used to change the tense of a word.

Let’s look at the word stop. In stop, the final consonant is doubled before adding -ed to form stopped and -ing to form stopping. When a word has a short vowel followed by one consonant, we double the final consonant before adding -ed or -ing.
If a word has a long vowel and a silent e, we drop the e before adding -ed or -ing. For example: 

skate

skated

skating

Let’s look at the words wait and help. There is a vowel team in wait, and a vowel followed by two consonants in help. There is no change to the base words when adding -ed or -ing.

 

In Your Notebook: Draw a three-column chart. Write Double, Drop e, and No Change in the top columns on the chart.

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Read each word. Sort the word under the correct category. After completing the sort, please copy this sort into your phonics/word study journal.