My daughter is a second year reader. I taught her some foundational phonic skills last year in Kindergarten and she knows all of her Dolch High Frequency Words. She can read simple books and we are progressing forward with more difficult text. With all of that being said she was still struggling with the ‘-ing’ suffix. She tried to sound out each letter every time she approached a word in a sentence that ended in -ing. So I created this game and matching word book to teach her about the -ing suffix and how it sounds with some common words she sees in a lot of books.

The pieces for the matching game can either be used as such or glued into a file folder to create a file folder game. I had my daughter pronounce each word as she selected it and its matching ‘-ing’ partner card. For example as she picked up ‘smile’ she would say ‘smile’ then she looked for the matching ‘-ing’ word. When she found ‘smiling’ she would say ‘smiling’. We followed up the game with the matching word book. I read the word bank words to her and explained how the book worked by writing the matching word for each page on the blank line to complete each sentence. After she completed the pages in the book she read the book to me!

She was so excited about the book that she read it to her dad when he got home from work AND her brother and sister! I LOVE IT when she gets excited about reading! I really feel like I have done my job as a home-schooling mom when my children want to share what they have learned with others!

I included the common core standards that this set covers in the set as well as teacher notes to guide you through the grammar rules that apply to the words that are used in the set.

Common Core Standards:
1st Grade: RF.1.3f Read words with inflectional endings.
2nd Grade: RF.2.3d Decode words with common prefixes and suffixes.
3rd Grade: L.3.2e Use conventional spelling for high-frequency and other studied words and for adding suffixes to base words.