Curriculum › Spelling ›Grade 3
Grade 3 Spelling · Level 3, Your child adds endings that change the base word: doubling (sitting), dropping the e (smiled) and changing y to i (cries, happier).
Double, Then Add -ed, -er, -est
Practises doubling the last consonant before -ed, -er and -est, as in hopped, bigger and hottest.
The words
hop + ed = hopped, big + er = bigger
- hopped
- patted
- nodded
- tugged
- chatted
- scrubbed
- trotted
- bigger
- hottest
- redder
- thinnest
