Inflectional Endings: -ed, -es, and -ing

 This week we learned about inflectional endings -- word part "tails" on the main "body" (or base word) that change the number (single or plural), or tense of the base word. 

We already knew that the -S ending is used to make nouns plural. Now we know that if a word ends with CH, SH, S, X, or Z, we add -ES instead of just -S to make it plural, like in "bunches," "dishes," "glasses," and "foxes."

We learned about "Time Traveler -ED," which takes verbs into the past! There are 3 different ways it can be pronounced when we read it: If a voiced sound comes before -ED, we say /d/ (like in "called" and "tamed.") If an unvoiced sound comes before -ED, it's more of a /t/ sound (like in "sniffed" or "helped.") If the sounds /d/ or /t/ come before -ED, the E is pronounced like the E in -ES -- this relaxed vowel sound is called a "schwa," which the students find pretty funny!

The students were already familiar with -ING from when we learned about the -NG digraph, and we reviewed how -ING is an ending we can add to verbs to change their tense when we are talking about actions that continuously happen (like "going" or "jumping").

Games to Practice Inflectional Endings

Practice reading -es words in this memory match game (click the picture):

Read the -ed verb and decide whether the -ed inflectional ending "tail" makes the /t/, /d/, or /əd/ sound and sort them accordingly (click the picture to play):

Choose the -ing verb that best matches the picture:

Heart Words + Spelling Patterns to Review

(This was sent home as a hard copy on Friday)