Kentucky Reading and Writing L.3.2.e
The Standard
- L.3.2
- When writing:
Use conventional spelling for high-frequency words where suffixes are added to base words.
Kentucky Academic Standards for Reading and Writing (2025) · Conventions of General American English
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students spell familiar words when they add endings such as -ing or -ed. They learn when to keep, drop, double, or change a letter in the base word.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student writes making, running, tried, and played correctly in sentences. They can show which base words changed and which stayed the same.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may write makeing or runing because they add the ending without changing the base word. Others write tryed or plaied because they treat every final y the same way.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Add -ing to make and run, and -ed to try and play. Write the four finished words.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs letter tiles for make, run, and try, plus suffix cards; have them build making, running, and tried.
Ask, “Why does making lose the e, but playing keeps every letter?” Have partners write an explanation for each spelling.
Play a card sort with played, plaied, tried, tryed, running, and runing; students sort correct spellings and fix the errors.
Have students write a note to a family member about what they tried yesterday and what they are trying today; check both spellings.
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