NG and NK Word Endings: Complete the Words
Choose ng or nk to complete twenty-one word stems and practise reading the finished words.
- Grades
- Grades 1–2
- Pages
- 1
- File type
- Subject
- Phonics, Language Development, ELA
- Resource types
- Worksheets
- Ontario expectations
- B2.4 — use phonics knowledge
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About this resource
The NG and NK Digraph Worksheet is a great way for students to learn and practice NG and NK words. This worksheet can help students learn and remember these words by adding ng or nk to the supplied word stems.
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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
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
Core concepts
- NG and NK patterns
- Word completion
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