This worksheet teaches students about verbs that require the last consonant to be doubled before adding "-ed" for the past tense. The activity includes writing the past tense of words, identifying corresponding pictures, and optionally adding their own illustrations.

When you want to talk about something that already happened, you turn the action word, or verb, into the past tense. For some verbs, like "zip," "shred," "job," or "rip," you might need to double the last letter before adding "ed" to make the past tense. Here's a simple rule: If the word ends in a vowel (a, e, i, o, u) followed by a single consonant, and the last part of the word is stressed, you double the last consonant. So, "zip" becomes "zipped," "shred" becomes "shredded," "job" becomes "jobbed," and "rip" becomes "ripped."