PRIMARY SPELLING & PHONICS • CURRICULUM ARCHITECTURE TEACHER MASTER KEY INSTRUCTOR REFERENCE • PAGE 2 OF 2

Base Verb	IPA	Past Tense (+ed)	Present Participle (+ing)
hurry	/ˈhʌri/	hurried (/ˈhʌrid/)	hurrying (/ˈhʌri.ɪŋ/)
carry	/ˈkæri/	carried (/ˈkærid/)	carrying (/ˈkæri.ɪŋ/)
marry	/ˈmæri/	married (/ˈmærid/)	marrying (/ˈmæri.ɪŋ/)
vanish	/ˈvænɪʃ/	vanished (/ˈvænɪʃt/)	vanishing (/ˈvænɪʃɪŋ/)

Complete Answer Key & Solutions WHEELER'S EXERCISES

Exercise 2 Solutions:
• hurry + -ed → hurried.
• hurry + -ing → hurrying.
• carry + -ed → carried.
• carry + -ing → carrying.

Moral & Metric Reflection:
Sangster's poem reminds children that unkind words can never be recalled once spoken.
Have children identify the rhyming pairs: fled/shed and cold/gold.

Socratic Guiding Prompts & Pedagogical Insights INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES

What happens to the 'y' when we add '-ed' to 'hurry'? Why doesn't that happen with '-ing'?
What sound does the '-ed' make in 'vanished' and 'fled'?
What does Sangster mean when she writes that our deeds are 'written forever in letters of gold'?

Dictation & Oral Application Sentences (Read slowly at normal speaking pace):

1. The children hurried home through the falling snow.

2. She was hurrying to school so she would not be late.

3. Words that were hasty can never be called back.

4. Kind deeds and gentle words are treasures of gold.