Our spelling and word work emphasis this week, is suffix -ed. Integrating this with our grammar focus on verbs, we will be discussing how when something happened in the past, you usually add -ed to the end of the word. Today, students learned that suffix -ed can be pronounced in three different ways, /d/, /t/, and /id/. Examples of these, derived from Fry’s sight word list, include called (/d/), stretched (/t/), and repeated (/id/). Later in the week, we will discover that when the root word ends in t or d, adding suffix -ed will also add another syllable to the word. For example, the root word end is a one syllable word. To make it past tense, add suffix -ed. The resulting word, ended, is a two syllable word.