1. Adding ‘ing’
Some simple
rules and ex
amples

2. What do we do?
Look at and read the word.
Listen to the vowel sound – is it long or short? Is there a simple
or complex vowel sound?
See what happens to the short vowel words here…

3. Short (simple) vowel sounds
0 lap 0 lapping
0 beg 0 begging
0 hit 0 hitting
0 nod 0 nodding
0 put 0 putting

4. Rule
0 If the vowel is a short sound with only one consonant
after it, then you must double the consonant.

5. How many consonants after the
short (simple) vowel sound here?
0 back 0 backing
0 stick 0 sticking
0 stand 0 standing
0 hunt 0 hunting
0 bank 0 banking
0 turn 0 turning
0 jump 0 jumping
0 lift 0 lifting

6. If the vowel
is a
short (simp
le)
sound, but h
as
more than o
ne
consonant a
fter it
then –
just add ‘ing
’
Can you think of any more words like these?

7. Look at the next list of words
What is the same about each word?
Each word ends in the ‘magic e’.

8. Look…
0 come 0 coming
0 hope 0 hoping
0 joke 0 joking
0 fake 0 faking
0 slide 0 sliding
0 hide 0 hiding
0 take 0 taking
0 tune 0 tuning

9. Rule
0 If it ends in ‘e’ – drop the ‘e’ when adding ‘ing’

10. Now you th
ink
what the ne
xt rule
might be …
Look at this
new list of w
ords.

11. What is the same about each
word?
0 break 0 breaking
0 leap 0 leaping
0 look 0 looking
0 sleep 0 sleeping
0 cheat 0 cheating
0 float 0 floating
0 boil 0 boiling
0 sail 0 sailing

12. What is the
rule?
If there is a
complex or
before the c long vowel
onsonant, ju sound
st add ing.

13. Rules for adding ‘ing’
0 Short vowel sound, with one consonant =
Double the consonant and add ‘ing’
0 Short vowel sound,
with two consonants= Just add ‘ing’
0 Ending in ‘e’ = Drop the ‘e’ then add ‘ing’
0 Long vowel sound = Just add ‘ing’

14. Sort these words into the grid
below:
name drink snow hit
fan skip paint drive
melt wash dive swim
Look for more examples in your reading books
Just add ‘ing’ Double the Drop the ‘e’ and
consonant add ‘ing’