Inflectional Endings: -ing

Introduction

• Gather your students together.
• Review short/long vowel sounds and the idea of spelling patterns (th, ing, two vowels, etc.).
• Explain that today you will focus on something called an inflectional ending. Define an inflectional ending as a group of letters that are added to the end of a word to change its meaning.
• Tell your students they'll be learning about the inflectional ending -ing.
• Give your class an example of how to take a base word, a word that gives another word its basic meaning, and change it using -ing. For example, when play becomes playing, it's something that you do in the present tense, or right now.