This 'Changing the ending to ing' spelling quiz tests KS1 children on how to spell words when adding this suffix. All the words have been taken from and added to the recommended spellings for Year 2 in the National Curriculum.
Hopefully you’ve completed the KS1 English quiz ‘Tense - Adding 'ing' and 'ed'’ and know when to add ‘ing’. These spellings are all on words that end with ‘ing’. Can you spell the missing words?
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You can find more about this topic by visiting BBC Bitesize - Spelling
Sometimes, all you need to do is just add 'ing' onto the end of the word.
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Sometimes, if a word ends with an 'e' you need to delete the 'e' and replace it with 'ing'.
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The word icing is a noun and a verb. Icing is the food you put on cakes but it is also something you do - you 'ice' a cake.
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Because the word 'come' ends in an 'e' we have to delete it then add 'ing'.
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Another word for a horse's nose is muzzle.
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Another term for this is littering.
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Often, if the word has a short vowel sound, like the word run - then you double the end letter and then add 'ing'.
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Hitting the bat with a mallet is called knocking it in - this is where you compress the wood so that it doesn't break.
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You can either 'call someone' by phone or 'call on someone' by knocking on their door!
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If you do all these sports in one go, it's called a triathlon.
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