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Spelling Verb Endings

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English›Spelling & Word Study|Ages 5—6|ID: mt_QdMMLRYWhn

Spell words with common suffixes (-s/-es for plurals and third person verbs, -ing, -ed, -er, -est) where no change to the root word is needed

Mastery Evidence

  • Add -s or -es correctly to make plurals (e.g. 'cats', 'boxes')
  • Spell words with -ing and -ed endings (e.g. 'jumping', 'helped')
  • Add -er and -est to adjectives (e.g. 'quicker', 'quickest')

Assessment Prompt

“When [child] writes about more than one dog or talks about something that is happening now, do they add the right ending — like "dogs" or "jumping" — without making spelling mistakes?”

Curriculum Standards5 alignments

Eng_App1_Y1_12The national curriculum in England
Adding s and es

Adding s and es to words (plural of nouns and the third person singular of verbs).

English · Key Stage 1
Eng_App1_Y1_13The national curriculum in England
Adding –ing, –ed and –er

Adding the endings –ing, –ed and –er to verbs where no change is needed to the root word.

English · Key Stage 1
Eng_App1_Y1_14The national curriculum in England
Adding –er and –est

Adding –er and –est to adjectives where no change is needed to the root word.

English · Key Stage 1
Eng_Y1_WT_06The national curriculum in England
Add suffixes -s or -es

Add prefixes and suffixes using the spelling rule for adding –s or –es as the plural marker for nouns and the third person singular marker for verbs.

English · Key stage 1
Eng_Y1_WT_08The national curriculum in England
Add suffixes -ing, -ed, -er, -est

Add prefixes and suffixes using –ing, –ed, –er and –est where no change is needed in the spelling of root words [for example, helping, helped, helper, eating, quicker, quickest].

English · Key stage 1

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