Spelling Rules doubling l adding ed and ing
Spelling Rules: doubling l, adding -ed and -ing
Connections to Curriculum • Victorian Curriculum Level 8 Writing: Phonics and Word Knowledge – Understand how to apply learned knowledge consistently in order to spell accurately and to learn new words including nominalisations (VCELA 417) • Single Word Spelling Test (Sacre and Masterson, 2000): SWST Structured Spelling Lists: Level 7 • Fountas and Pinnell Literacy Continuum, Expanded Edition (Fountas and Pinnell, 2017): Phonics, Spelling and Word Study Years 7 & 8 – Word Structure
Do Now: -lling/-lled words Put these words into sentences. Good = 4 sentences Better = 5 sentences Best = 6 sentences Remember! A sentence must contain a noun and a verb. appalling cancelled travelled rebelling labelled patrolling
-lling/-lled words Learning Intentions Success Criteria • To correctly add the suffixes -ed and ing to multisyllable words ending in the letter l. • I can explain in my own words the rule for adding -ing or -ed to multisyllable words. • To spell –lling and –lled words correctly. • I can identify what changes need to be made to certain words before adding or -ed. • I can spell -lling and -lled words correctly most of the time.
Doubling, adding -ed or -ing • In Australian and British English, when a word ends in a consonant with one vowel before it, the last consonant is usually doubled before adding the suffix -ed or -ing. • As most spellchecking and autocorrect software defaults to American English, it will often miss this rule – be careful! Clutterbuck, P. (2010): Successful Spelling Book 6. Clayton South, Australia: Blake Education. p. 46.
Which of these words needs a double consonant to add -ed or -ing? • In Australian and British English, when a word ends in a consonant with one vowel before it, the last consonant is usually doubled before adding the suffix -ed or -ing. cancel chase control total signal switch taste tunnel
Your turn: add -ing adjusting courting excelling labelling last level shovel lasting levelling shovelling
Your turn: add -ed coasted painted marvelled quarrelled rhymed rebelled travelled
-lling/-lled words: How did you go? Learning Intentions Success Criteria • To correctly add the suffixes -ed and ing to multisyllable words ending in the letter l. • I can explain in my own words the rule for adding -ing or -ed to multisyllable words. • To spell –lling and –lled words correctly. • I can identify what changes need to be made to certain words before adding or -ed. • I can spell -lling and -lled words correctly most of the time.
Words To Learn: -lled and -lling appalling cancelling controlling excelling labelling levelling patrolling quarrelling rebelling shovelling signalling totalling travelling tunnelling cancelled labelled marvelled patrolled quarrelled rebelled signalled totalled travelled
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