Doubling the consonant in polysyllabic words | English

Starter quiz

Identify the consonants.
- i
- n ✓
- g ✓
- e
- d ✓
Which of these words are nouns?
- frog ✓
- running
- played
- teacher ✓
Which of these words are verbs?
- hopping ✓
- school
- danced ✓
- misty
Which is the correct spelling to show what happens when we add the suffix -er to the root word 'fit'?
- fiter
- fitr
- fitter ✓
- fitt
Identify the words that contain short vowel sounds.
- peace
- hop ✓
- flat ✓
- moist
Identify the words that contain long vowel sounds.
- bike ✓
- test
- home ✓
- pickle

Identify the words with double consonants.
- kettle ✓
- basket
- stopped ✓
- little ✓
- cuter
Fill in the gap in the following sentence: 'A double consonant follows a __________ vowel sound.'
- long
- silent
- short ✓
- double
Fill in the gap in the following sentence: 'A single consonant follows a __________ vowel sound.'
- long ✓
- silent
- short
- double
Choose the correct spelling of the word in bold in the following sentence: 'The kiten was playing with a ball of string.'
- kitin
- kittin
- kittn
- kitten ✓
Choose the correct spelling of the word in bold in the following sentence: 'He blinkked in the morning sunlight.'
- blinnked
- blinked ✓
- blincked
- blinkkt
Correct the spelling of the word in bold in the following sentence: 'He had a perculear taste in his mouth.'
- 'peculiar' ✓

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When there are two of the same consonants beside each other, we call this a double consonant.
Double consonants are often found after short vowel sounds.
Some letters are never doubled, 'h' 'k' 'j' 'v'.
Some letters are rarely doubled, 'c' 'z'. When they are, they usually come from another language.
How to spell the curriculum words: peculiar, particular and quarter.

Pupils often miss the double letters in the middle of words that have a suffix.

Drawing attention to the patterns of how words are spelt when suffixes are added will help them to remember the double letter.

Consonant - a sound that is made by blocking air in the mouth with the teeth, tongue, lips or palate
Vowel - a speech sound produced with an open mouth
Noun - words that name a person, place, thing, or idea, such as 'cat', 'school' or 'love'
Origin - where something starts
Syllable - a speech sound produced with an open mouth