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