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Read contractions and recognise how -ing, -ed, -er and -est attach to roots whose spelling does not change. Saving is off unless you choose it.

Practise part of this topic: work out contraction meanings or add selected endings where the root spelling stays unchanged. Oral reading and independent spelling need other activities.

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Year 1 · English

Use Ing Ed Er And Est

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Focus on adding ing ed er and est to words. Open support for “Add -ing and -ed to Verbs”, then explain the idea in your own words.

Year 1 learners practise adding ing ed er and est to words.

The activities include Add -ing and -ed to Verbs, Add -ing to Verbs with Short Vowel Sounds, Add the Suffix -ing to Verbs, and related practice. The checked support below includes video, worksheet, lesson. Open a resource in its provider's website and choose the format that best helps the learner explain the idea independently.

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  • Build words with un- and endings

    Build un- meanings and words with -ing, -ed, -er and -est while keeping the root unchanged. The final short-vowel-doubling task is explicitly a TheLearnDen site extension, not the statutory unchanged-root rule. Supported fixed-word practice, not independent spelling fluency or whole-topic completion.

    7 pages · answers and adult guidance · selected skills, not the whole topic

  • Build words with ing, ed, er and est

    Build selected unchanged-root ing and ed verb forms and er and est adjective forms. A clearly labelled site extension explores four short-vowel doubling examples. Partial practice does not establish general spelling, tense or comparison mastery.

    7 pages · answers and adult guidance · selected skills, not the whole topic

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PlanIt Y1: Suffix -ing

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PlanIt Y1: Suffix -ed

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PlanIt Y1: Suffix -er

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