Double Consonants in the Middle

Have your child clap each word to find the stressed syllable before deciding to double. Say pairs like hoping and hopping aloud to hear the vowel change. Check with the answer key.

Match clues to words with a double consonant in the middle, like traffic and mammal. A double consonant is one consonant written twice. After a stressed short vowel, a middle consonant is often doubled. The directions on the page read: Read each clue and write the matching word from the word bank. Then, circle the correct spelling in each row. The page opens with a worked example, and the answer key shows every answer.

Yes, both. We made it for 5th Grade spelling, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens with double consonants. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

Double it before ed or ing when the last syllable is stressed and ends in one vowel plus one consonant: admit becomes admitted and begin becomes beginning. When the stress is earlier, as in visit or travel, do not double.

Hopping comes from hop, which has a short o, so the p doubles. Hoping comes from hope, which has a long o and a silent e, so it keeps one p.

Words like necessary, tomorrow, embarrassed, address, success, occasion and committee. Saying each part slowly and noting where the double letters fall helps.

Yes. All four sheets have an answer key that shows every spelling, so a parent or teacher can check the work in a minute.

5th graders are expected to spell grade-level words correctly and consult references when needed (CCSS L.5.2.E). In practice that means spelling words with prefixes and suffixes, choosing tricky endings like able or ible, handling double consonants and silent letters, and breaking long words into syllables.

A useful rule of thumb: if the root is a complete word, the ending is usually able (comfortable, readable). If the root is not a word on its own, it is usually ible (visible, possible). The word endings pages practice this and the ant and ent, ance and ence pairs.

Say the word slowly and split it into syllables, then spell one syllable at a time. Pay extra attention to the unstressed syllable, where vowels often sound like uh (the schwa sound), as in the a of about. The multisyllabic words pages walk through this step by step.