Sounds of ed

Teaching regular past tense form is one of the very first morphemes (fancy word for a unit of meaning) that we teach our young readers and writers.

The three sounds of -ed can be a confusing concept for beginning and struggling learners. That’s why I created this hands-on printable pack for my own 2nd grader at home. Today, I’m sharing it with you, too! You might also like our Interactive Inflected Endings Bundle Pack! *The download can be found at the END ... Read More about The Three Sounds of -ed Printable Pack

Handy activity for learning the three sounds of ed. Print FREE ed endings worksheet to learn 3 sounds of ed rules with first graders.

I may be a nerd, but phonics is by far one of my favorite things to teach my firsties. The program our school uses teaches students the "why". We normally start out a sound study by learning the rule or pattern. We use that rule/pattern to spell words for a few days then we move on to hands-on phonics. My kids LOVE to look through book to find words that follow the rule we are learning. So that's exactly what we did last week. Using their book boxes, they had to search for a word that ended…

Prefixes and suffixes in first grade? Kindergarten ? What?! I'm not sure who decided teaching them so early was the way to go but never fear...

Learn the 3 sounds that suffix -ed make, including the rules for when each sound is used within base words. Then grab your free poster!

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I've got some freebies for ya! Here's just a quick post showing you the posters I've made the past couple of months that align with the Common Core. I hang these in my classroom and my students use them all the time to refer to! Have you noticed your kiddos struggling with this concept? I made the posters and a little word work game to go along with the three sounds of "ed". Punctuation is such a tough one. Kids are using periods on every other word, question marks where there should be…

Since the English language is so irregular, students should be explicitly taught phonics rules, in hopes to make reading and comprehendin...