Otherwise, the D is voiced if the ED follows a vowel or a voiced consonant. It is sounded only after D and T, where a vowel sound is needed to help the listener realize that the suffix is in use. ED is a suffix added to verbs to show past action. If you aren’t using a specific curriculum and need a little help explaining the -ED suffix to your children, this is very helpful: Instead of using the provided -ED sorting activity, which I’m sure is as fabulous as everything else All About Learning creates, I had to make my own -ED sort at the last minute. Ack! I’m sure it’s somewhere in the depths of our school room shelf, but after searching for over 20 minutes, I had to change plans. One of the activities was to sort various words that ended in the -ED suffix, but I lost the sheet with the listed suffixes. We are currently in All About Spelling Level 3, which introduces the three different sounds that the suffix ED makes when added to a base word. This past week in spelling, my son and I studied the vowel suffix -ED.

I left the original post from 2013 mostly intact: Please see my disclosure policy for more information. You can also browse through only the Phonics and Grammar Sorting Activities and find similar activities to the one featured in this post. ➡ Browse through a variety of phonics worksheets and printable activities here at Mama’s Learning Corner. Please re-download it and use with your children! I have updated it with fresh fonts and an updated layout. Add some extra phonics practice to your child’s lessons this week with the phonics sorting activity!ĮTA April 2022: Note that this post was originally published in May 2013.

In my 12+ years of homeschooling, I have found that you can’t practice phonics, grammar, Latin, or math facts too often.

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