NG and NK Word Endings: Complete the Words
Choose ng or nk to complete twenty-one word stems and practise reading the finished words.

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- Phonics, Language Development, ELA
- Resource types
- Worksheets, Worksheets & Printables
- Ontario expectations
- B2.4
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Explore how ng and nk complete different word stems. Students work through twenty-one stems and may try both endings where more than one word is possible. Have students read their completed words aloud and explain the meanings, rather than treating every stem as having only one acceptable response.
Curriculum reference — Ontario: NG is a digraph; NK is a consonant cluster, so the listing does not call both digraphs. Selected skills only; reference stage is not an overall reading age, complete curriculum coverage, or an automatic recommendation for every learner.
In the classroom
Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
- Complete word forms with NG or NK
- Compare the spelling and sound patterns of the two endings
- Recognize when one stem can form more than one word
Teaching tips
- Read each completed form aloud to decide whether it makes a recognizable word.
- Mark stems that accept both NG and NK, then compare the two resulting words.
Skills covered
- Final-pattern spelling — learners choose NG or NK
- Phonics analysis — learners connect letter patterns with word sounds
- Flexible word building — learners consider multiple valid completions
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Ontario curriculum
Ontario curriculum expectations
Ontario expectations
- B2.4 — use phonics knowledge and phonemic blending to read words, and phonemic segmentation to spell phonetically regular words, in isolation and various text contexts
Core concepts
- NG and NK patterns
- Word completion
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