Year 1 English Adding Endings: lesson and practice

By the end of this chapter you will be able to

• Make plurals with -s and -es
• Add -ing, -ed and -er to words like help and play
• Compare two or more things with -er and -est
• Add un- to the front of a word, like unhappy
• Read and write short forms like I’m and don’t
• Spell the days of the week, with capital letters

You should already know

• Letter sounds and letter names (Chapter 1)
• Two letters that make one sound, like sh and ch (Chapter 2)
• Tricky words such as said and were (Chapter 4)

Where this leads

• Making sentences with capital letters and full stops (Chapter 6)
• Questions and exclamations (Chapter 7)
• Writing my own sentences and stories (Chapter 11)