Word Study Activity - February 18

*** Please note that due to the Family Day Weekend, the Word Study will be extended to Friday, February 21. ***
Olympic Endings... 

This week's word list comes from the Winter Olympics.

All the words are VERBS (one of the parts of speech).

The word study is very simple and involves two suffixes you're already familiar with: "-ed" and "-ing".

 

This should be review, however we've come across some spelling errors when it comes to adding "ed" or "ing" to the ends of words.  Many times we've noticed that you're not quite sure when to double the last letter or when to drop the "e" or "y".  

 

For example, when adding "ed" or "ing" to a simple word like hop we often see "hoped" or "hoping", but that it's incorrect.  Otherwise, how would you add "ed" or "ing" to the verb "hope"?

**Note:  when adding "ed" to a word it changes the tense of the word to past tense.  We'll look at tenses at a later time.**

Here are the basic rules to follow when adding the suffixes "ed" and "ing":

  

ROOT WORD	To add "ed"	To add "ing"	FINAL WORDS
Try	Ends with a consonant and a "y", so drop the "y" and add an i and "ed"	Ends with a consonant and a "y", so keep the "y" and add "ing"	Tried   Trying
Bake	Ends with an "e", so drop the "e" and add "ed"	Ends with an "e", so drop the "e" and add "ing"	Baked   Baking
Track	Ends with 2 consonants, so just add "ed"	Ends with 2 consonants, so just add "ing"	Tracked   Tracking
Pray	Ends with a vowel and a "y", so always keep the "y" and add "ed"	Ends with a vowel and a "y", so always keep the "y" and add "ing"	Prayed   Praying
Lie	Ends with the vowels "ie", so drop the "e" and add "ed"	Ends with the vowels "ie", so change the "ie" to a "y" and add "ing"	Lied   Lying

WHAT ABOUT DOUBLING??

You double a word when it has all of the following criteria:

• The word has consonant-vowel-consonant pattern at the end ( wrap - "r" is consonant, "a" is vowel and "p" is consonant)
• The word is usually one syllable
• The vowel in the word is a short sound

The word "wrap" fits under all these criteria, so when adding "ed" or "ing", the word becomes "wrapped" or "wrapping".

This week's WORD LIST and ACTIVITIES - DUE DATE: February 21

1.   skate
2.   ski
3.   race
4.   snowboard
5.   curl
6.   sprint
7.   compete
8.   bobsled
9.   train
10. succeed

Here is an online game to help you practise:

http://www.missmaggie.org/scholastic/fishemup2_eng_launcher.html

WORD ACTIVIY 4: Simply Simple

In this activity, everything is very basic; nothing too exciting!
 
Step 1 - Get you Word Study Notebook!
 
Step 2 - For each list word, add each suffix (-ed and -ing)
 
Step 3 - Next, find 5 other "Olympic Verbs" to add the same suffixes to.  You must have one word that ends with an "e", "y" and a word where the last letter is doubled.

Step 4 - Write your 5 new words in a sentence related to an Olympic athlete.  You can choose which suffix to use.  Here's an example using the word "skate" form the list words:

"Patrick Chan skated to win a silver medal for Canada."

Step 5 - Now that you're done, you've become very familiar with what we call INFLECTIONAL ENDINGS (letters that are added to the end of a word - this includes all suffixes, even the plural 'es' and 's").

Now let's see these Olympic sentences!!