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/ed/ and /ing/ Word Search

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This 22-word word search for Grades 2–4 reinforces the /ed/ and /ing/ phonetic patterns with words like swimming, planned, invented, and skidding. Words show both past-tense and present-progressive forms across common verbs. Use it as a phonics warm-up, a word-family review station, or a sub-plan activity during a unit on inflectional endings.

Subject:: English / Language Arts
Topic:: Phonics
Grade Level:: 2nd – 4th Grades
Updated April 2026

Word List

SWIMMING
DRUMMING
DROPPING
SITTING
TAPING
INVENTED
SAVING
SMILED
PLANNED
CHANGING
JOKING
LOVED
GRIPPED
TASTED
WOODEN
SMOOTH
CROOKED
CHEW
ADMIRED
SCRAPPED
FORGETTING
SKIDDING

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