TO DOUBLE OR NOT TO DOUBLE?

What is required to double a word?

• one syllable

• vowel suffix

• one vowel

• one end consonant

drip + less =

• Double

• Do not double

• drippless

• dripless

Why do you not double these words:

jumping kinder rusty

• YOU DO DOUBLE THESE WORDS!

• They have two vowels, vowel teams.

• They have 2 end consonants

• They are fun words.

Shaggy

• The dog's best friend on Scooby

• doubling rule

• dropping e rule

• not doubled

Starry starry night...

• doubled

• not doubled

• Is from a song about a Van Gogh painting.

• dropping rule

nap + ed

• naped

• napping

• napped

• nappped

pin + ed Which is correct use of the word.....

• Did you ever play a game where you pined the tail onto a donkey?

• She pinned the hem of his pants as he pined away because he missed his Mom. (she was a seamstress and was back in Austria)

• Did you ever play a game where you pinned the tail on the donkey?

• She pined the hem of his pants as he pinned away because he missed his Mom. (she was a seamstress and was back in Austria)

A slim + ing shake not slime + y snake....

• slimy shake

• slimming shake

• slimmy shake

• slimy snake

Which words use the doubling rule correctly?

• riding cutter moping fiber

• ratting rating cuter mopping

• ripen riding hoped fiber

• ridding hopped fibber muddy

Which words follow the doubling rule?

• ratting bitter chosen

• cuter stopped smiled

• rubbing shaggy dropped

• mopping muddy moping