🔥 Bet your kids don’t know this! ED as a suffix makes three sounds: d, t and id (or ed, depending on your dialect!). If the base word ends in D or T, it forms its own syllable (fainted, dreaded). The other sounds depend on the sound right before it. 🧰 Try having your kids sort verbs with this ending suffix by the sound it makes. It may help with orthographic mapping. ❓A lot of people will ask if I actually teach kids these things. The answer of course is “it depends”. I always teach kids the t