Plural
Add the correct ending: One cat, two ____?
cats
Add the correct ending: I walk to school yesterday.
walked
Add the correct ending: I am read ___ a book.
reading
Spell the word _______
A person who teaches is called a ...?
teacher
This is what you get when you add the correct ending to the word box to show more than one.
boxes
To make bake past tense, just add this one letter.
baked
To use make in the present tense with “-ing,” you drop this letter first.
"e" - making
Spell the word ______
dragonflies
Someone who paints for a living is known as this.
painter
To make baby plural, you don’t just add “s.” You change the ending to this.
The word hop becomes this when you put it in the past tense.
hopped
What’s the -ing form of run?
running
Spell the word _______
hurried
Add the correct suffix to describe who acts in movies.
actor
Some words that end in “ch,” like church, need this plural ending instead of just “s.”
churches
Why does plan become planned, not planed?
You double the final consonant when the word ends in consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC)
Why does swim become swimming, but open just becomes opening?
You double the final consonant for one-syllable words that end in consonant-vowel-consonant.
Spell the word _____
escalator
A person who writes books is called this ...
writer
This rule explains why penny becomes pennies, but monkey becomes monkeys.
If a word ends in a consonant + y, change "y" to "ies," if it ends in a vowel + y, just add "s"
This spelling rule tells you why try becomes tried, but play becomes played in the past tense.
If a verb ends in a consonant + y, change “y” to “i” and add “ed."
This rule explains why lie becomes lying, not lieing.
Drop the “e” and change “ie” to “y” before adding “-ing”
Spell the word ______
carefully
This rule helps explain why we say inventor, conductor, and advisor, but runner and dancer.
-or is used for many formal words words.
-er is used for most regular or action-based verbs.