Recently, our spelling and word work activities introduced us to suffix -ed. Students have learned that suffix -ed can be pronounced in three different ways, /d/, /t/, and /id/. Examples of these include called (/d/), slipped (/t/), and printed (/id/). Early in the week, students practiced sorting suffix -ed words by their ending sound at teacher table with support from Ms. Ursino. Later, they sorted the words independently with their literacy group.
Integrating this with our current grammar focus on verbs, we have been discussing how when something happened in the past, you usually add -ed to the end of the word.
Later in the week, we discovered that when the root word ends in t or d, adding suffix -ed will also add another syllable to the word. For example, the root word end is a one syllable word. To make it past tense, add suffix -ed. The resulting word, ended, is a two syllable word.
