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Handout
BBC

Bbc: Skillswise: Suffix Spelling Rules: Double Letters [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 5th
Learn when to double the final consonant of a word when adding a suffix, and when the consonant does not get doubled.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Integrating Movement and Spelling Generalizations

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Contains plans for two lessons that use movement and cheering to teach the letter y spelling generalization. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as...
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Handout
Other

Donna Young: Spelling Rules Words With Ie or Ei

For Students 9th - 10th
Rules and examples for correctly spelling words with ie or ei.
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Other

Woodland Hills School District: Spelling Rule Sheets [Pdf]

For Students 1st - 4th Standards
A PDF of 24 different phonics and spelling pattern worksheets.
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Unit Plan
University of Ottawa (Canada)

Hyper Grammar: Spelling

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Online grammar tutorial teaches the various spelling rules. L.9-10.2c Spelling
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Handout
Other

Literacy and Learning: The 1 1 1 Rule

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
A description of the 1-1-1 Rule (which is probably the only English spelling rule without exceptions), followed by examples.
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PPT
Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: Spelling Power Point

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Learn about spelling rules and commonly misspelled words. Practice identifying correct spelling in questions that could be found on standardized tests.
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Article
Other

Sarah Snippets: Syllable Division Rules

For Students 2nd - 7th
Syllable division rules show us how to break up a multi-syllable word into its syllable parts. There are six main syllable division rules to guide us. It all starts with the vowels. Find the vowels in the word. It helps to underline or...
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Website
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: 1.4: Sometimes a Vowel, Sometimes a Consonant:

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Spelling rules with examples for words that contain the letter "u."
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Spelling Rules

For Teachers 1st - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Help students to investigate and learn spelling rules for -ie and learn exceptions.
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Website
Dave's ESL Cafe

Dave's Esl Cafe: Verb Forms and Verb Tenses #6: Spelling Ing Forms

For Students 3rd - 5th
Spelling rules and examples for adding the "ing" suffix to the ends of words.
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Website
Patsy Stevens

Garden of Praise: The 1 1 1 Spelling Rule

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Sheet music for a song about when to double the final consonant before adding suffixes.
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Activity
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Spelling Ie/ei Rules Exercises

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A very good reference for spelling that outlines the rules for EI/IE and the exceptions, and provides exercises for understanding. L.11-12.2b Spelling
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Unit Plan
McGraw Hill

Glencoe: Writer's Choice: Grade 6: Spelling Practice

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
"Spelling Practice" offers links to five spelling lessons: long vowel spellings, perplexing words, spelling the "seed" sound, the final "y", and the prefix "ad-". Each lesson provides links to practice activities.
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Handout
Other

Speakspeak: Spelling: Changing Y to Ies, Ied, Ier

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
A few rules and examples help students understand when and how to change words which end in -y, for plural nouns, verb forms, adjective and adverb forms.
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Education.com

Education.com: L.3.2.f Worksheets: Use Spelling Patterns and Generalizations

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A site with links to 30 worksheets that can be downloaded and printed for student use while building skills with standard L.3.2.F: Use spelling patterns and generalizations (e.g., word families,...
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Professional Doc
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: How to Teach Spelling

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
A teaching resource with free downloads of PDF documents and graphic organizers along with guidelines and practice activities to use while teaching students to become better spellers.
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Editing Techniques: Checking Your Spelling

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson goes over checking a composition for spelling errors. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content.
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Activity
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: How to Teach Spelling

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides effective tools to help students with the spellings of new words. Several graphic organizers are attached to help students learn how to spell new words more efficiently.
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Activity
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Four Guidelines for Learning to Spell

For Students 4th - 8th
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides tips that will help students learn how to spell assorted words.
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Handout
Other

Woodward English: Spelling Rules: Ing

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Rules, exceptions, and examples of how to add -ing to verbs, dependent on the ending of the original word.
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BBC

Bbc Schools: Bitesize: Spelling Quiz

For Students 3rd - 5th
Complete this ten question quiz to assess your mastery of how vowels and consonants work together to form words. Links are proved to allow you to enlarge the quiz to full screen, view the quiz in a different format, review rules for...
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Unit Plan
Other

Spelling It Right: Spelling It Right: Adding a Suffix to Words Ending in Y

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
This is a reference page explaining the rules for adding a suffix to words ending in the letter Y.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Spelling Double Consonants

For Teachers 1st - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart will help students to spell two-syllable words containing double consonants.