Teaching the Sounds of -ed

Teaching the sounds of -ed at the end of the word indicates that something has happened in the past. The -ed ending is actually what we call a “morpheme” –  a unit of meaning. This concept can be a little tricky for our young readers as the -ed ending on a word has three sounds.
When the -ed ending comes after the letter “t” or “d” it makes the /ed/ sound like in the words “melted”, “rented” and “printed”.
If the word ends with the following sounds, the -ed ending will make the /t/ sound: p, k, s, f, th, ch, sh or x (e.g. jumped, fished).
The /d/ sound for -ed is used for all other endings (e.g. banged, yelled).

Sorting activities are ideal for helping our beginning readers understand this concept.

It’s All Net! for Teaching the sounds of -ed

It’s All Net! Sounds of -ed activity contains 96 basketballs containing words with the past tense -ed ending.
With this activity, students read and sort the words with the /t/, /d/ and /id/ sounds of -ed.

The It’s All Net! for the Sounds of -ed can be found my in TpT store.

The It’s All Net! activity is also available for short vowels and consonant blends: It’s All Net! Short Vowels, It’s All Net Consonant Blends

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