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Dot the Puppy's Busy Day

Grade 1 root words practice: find the root in looks, looked and looking with a short puppy story, sorting, matching and fill-in words.

Grade 1ELAInteractive · Printable

Aligned toL.1.4.c

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1 Common Core standard
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12 questions
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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 1
Subject: ELA
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

Students identify the root word in words that end in -s, -ed or -ing.
Students add -ed and -ing to a root word to make a new word.
Students sort words by their root word and by their ending.

How to use

Read the story aloud, then have students answer in pairs or alone. Point out that the root word stays the same when -s, -ed or -ing is added.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

L.1.4.c

Identify frequently occurring root words, such as look, and their inflected forms, such as looks, looked, and looking.

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Name Date

Dot the Puppy's Busy Day

Find root words and the endings -s, -ed and -ing.

Read about Dot

Read the story. Then answer the questions.

Dot's Busy Day

1Dot is a small brown puppy. Every morning she jumps out of her bed. She plays with a red ball. Yesterday she jumped over a log and looked for her friend Sam.

2Today Sam is walking up the hill. Dot is barking. Sam helps Dot into the wagon. Dot wants to stay with Sam all day.

3Soon they will walk to the pond. Dot will splash in the water. Then she will nap in the sun.

Read paragraph 1. What is the root word of jumped?