Spelling words with the suffix "-ing", using alternative rules | English

Starter quiz

What tense is the following sentence in? 'She was jumping on the mat.'
- past ✓
- present
- future
Match the root words to the corresponding verbs with the suffix -ing.
- bake
  
  ⇔
  
  baking ✓
- walk
  
  ⇔
  
  walking ✓
- close
  
  ⇔
  
  closing ✓
- help
  
  ⇔
  
  helping ✓
Choose the correct spelling of the word in bold in the following sentence: 'We drove threw the night.'
- thru
- throuhg
- throug
- through ✓
Choose the correct spelling of the word in bold in the following sentence: 'I am clozing the door.'
- closeing
- clossing
- closing ✓
- clozeing
Choose the correct spelling of the word in bold in the following sentence: 'Dad was bayking cookies.'
- backing
- bakeing
- baycing
- baking ✓
Choose the correct spelling of the word in bold in the following sentence: 'You are torking loudly in class.'
- talkking
- talking ✓
- torlking
- talkin

When we add -ing to root words ending in 'y', what is the rule?
- remove the 'y' and add -ing
- keep the 'y' and just add -ing ✓
- double the final consonant and add -ing
When do we 'double the consonant, then add -ing' when using the suffix -ing?
- when the root word ends in 'e'
- when the root word ends in two consonant letters
- when the root word ends in 'y' after a consonant
- when the root word contains a short vowel before a single consonant ✓
- when the root word has two syllables with a stressed final syllable
Choose the correct spelling of the word in bold in the following sentence: 'He is tring to open the door.'
- trieing
- trying ✓
- chrying
- tryign
Choose the correct spelling of the word in bold in the following sentence: 'Last week, she went swiming.'
- swimming ✓
- swimig
- swimin
- swimmign
Choose the correct spelling of the word in bold in the following sentence: 'She is carefully controwling the kite.'
- controling
- controlin
- controllign
- controlling ✓
Correct the spelling of the word in bold in the following sentence: 'He wrote the anser in his book.'
- 'answer' ✓

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When -ing is added to the end of a word, it can show the past tense or the present tense.
If the root word has a short vowel and a single consonant, the consonant letter is doubled when the suffix is added.
If the verb ends in a "y", just add "-ing".
How to spell the curriculum word: answer.

Pupils may think 'y' is removed and replaced with an 'i', like with the suffix -ed.

Show that we end up with two 'i's in a row if this happens: fly becoming fliing, so we keep the 'y'.

Suffix - a letter or group of letters at the end of a word which creates another word
Present tense - tells the reader the action is happening now
Root word - the base word from which other words are formed often by adding prefixes or suffixes
Verb - a doing or being word
Past tense - tells the reader the action happened before now