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Literacy

Exploring spelling patterns 2

Look carefully at these two words: tap and tape. Say them aloud. Can you hear the difference in the vowel sounds? Try these: hop and hope. You should hear a short vowel sound in one of the words, and a long vowel sound in the other.

Now look what happens to the same words when the suffix ing is added. How does the vowel sound affect what happens?

tap

becomes

tapping

tape

becomes

taping

hop

becomes

hopping

hope

becomes

hoping

These words also have short vowels - look carefully at how the suffix ing is added.

camp

becomes

camping

catch

becomes

catching

help

becomes

helping

post

becomes

posting

Why isn't the last letter doubled?

Can you think of a rule which will help you to decide how to add ing to the words below? Write it in this box:

Now add ing to each of these words to check your rule. When you have finished, click on the "Finished" button to see how you scored.

1. hum

 

2. drop

 

3. stop

 

4. mope

 

5. mop

 

6. like

 

7. blast

 

8. go

 

9. hug

 

10. grin


 

  

Now that you have come up with a rule for adding ing, test it to see if it still applies when you add different suffixes, for example: er, ed and est.

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