20 questions
4th - 4th Grade
English
Spelling Test Adding -ed or -ing 5.1 is a Grade 4 English worksheet that helps students spell words correctly when adding the suffixes -ed and -ing. Across 20 items, students complete words such as covered, mapped, slipped, putting, visiting, and hiking, applying spelling patterns including final-consonant doubling and changes involving final e. The worksheet uses 7 dropdown questions, 9 fill-in-the-blank items, and 4 drag-and-drop questions, giving students practice recognizing and producing the correct forms in sentences. This free printable worksheet with an answer key works well for spelling instruction, independent practice, or a short formative assessment. Sentence-based items such as “mixed,” “wiped,” “pleasing,” “shipped,” and “offered” ask students to connect suffix spelling to meaningful context, while direct prompts require them to transform base words. Teachers can use the varied formats to check whether students can apply the patterns both when selecting a spelling and when writing it.
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WorksheetsAnswer KeyThis Grade 4 worksheet focuses on forming and spelling words with the suffixes -ed and -ing, including covered, mapped, slipped, putting, visiting, and hiking. Its 7 dropdown, 9 fill-in-the-blank, and 4 drag-and-drop items require students to apply patterns such as doubling a final consonant, as in map to mapped, and changing a base word before adding -ing, as in hike to hiking.
Introduce the base words and have students identify what changes, if anything, before the suffix is added. Then model examples from the worksheet, such as map to mapped, slip to slipped, put to putting, and hike to hiking, before assigning the sentence dropdowns and drag-and-drop items so students apply the patterns in context.
Watch for students adding a suffix without doubling the final consonant in words such as map, slip, or put, producing forms like maped, sliped, or puting. Students may also leave the final e in hike when adding -ing, or select distractors such as pleaseing, shiped, or phoneing instead of the correctly spelled forms.
The worksheet is available as a printable PDF and as a digital quiz on Wayground, and it includes a complete answer key for the -ed and -ing items. You can grade printable submissions by scanning student work with the Wayground for Teachers app, or review responses from the digital version.
In the worksheet’s Advanced Settings, adjust font spacing or choose a larger font size to make the sentence prompts, dropdowns, and fill-in-the-blank items easier to read. You can also enable a dyslexia-friendly font or translate the worksheet into another language when that better supports access to the spelling tasks.
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