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Batman doesn’t only protect Gotham city!

He protects words with short vowel sounds.

Can anybody give me an example of a word with a short vowel sound?

Batman can’t protect every word with a short vowel sound, so Robin comes along to help him. Together they protect words from changing when ‘ing’ is added to them.

Here are some more examples of words with short vowel sounds on them. Do you notice something they all have in common?

Mask and askTask band

stampFast chant craftCast grantChamp plantCramp scant

What did you notice?

When we add ‘ing’ to short vowel words (a,e,i,o,u) ending in two or three

consonants we simply add the letters i, n and g.

hand – handingpost – postingrock - rocking

milking

helping

wishing

missing

What would happen with these words?

* find * buy * watch * miss

Batman doesn’t protect words with a short vowel ending with one consonant

so we have to double the last letter.

hop - hoppingbeg - begging

fanning

shop

ping

fitting

What would happen with these words?

knothug

hum

_________

But what happens with the word ends

in ‘e’….

Batman decided to should ….

cross off the ‘e’ and add

‘ing’

drive

driving

time

timing

dance

dancing

What would happen

with these words?

Make

Making

Take

Taking

Write

Writing

File

Filing