Questions about the Adding -ed and -ing poster

What’s on the Adding -ed and -ing poster?

The rule, 4 worked examples, and the mistake everyone makes. Sometimes you just add it. Sometimes you drop an e, and sometimes you double the last…; hop → hopping · hope → hoping; jump = jumped, jumping; hope = hoped, hoping; hop = hopped, hopping; cry = cried, crying; Common mistake: hoping to hop → hopping to hop. The doubled letter protects the short vowel sound. That is its only job.

Who is the Adding -ed and -ing poster for?

Adding -ed and -ing is filed under 2nd Grade (ages 7–8), so it matches what that year asks a child to remember. It is equally useful to an older student revisiting literacy, and to the parent or teacher answering the question at the kitchen table.

When should you use the Adding -ed and -ing poster?

Point at the rule before they write, not after you mark it. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Adding -ed and -ing belongs on the wall where that literacy work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.

What other posters go with Adding -ed and -ing?

Compound Words, Contractions and Making Plurals sit alongside Adding -ed and -ing in the 2nd Grade set. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Compound WordsContractionsMaking Plurals

Is the Adding -ed and -ing poster free to download and print?

Yes. Adding -ed and -ing downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the 2nd Grade set. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence

What size does the Adding -ed and -ing poster print at?

Adding -ed and -ing is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Adding -ed and -ing loses nothing.Printing guide