1. What do all of these words have in common?
Rein
Vein
Obey
Eight
Weight
They all make the /ay/ sound in them, BUT…
Some are spelled with ei, some with ey and some with eigh!

2. LO: To spell words with /ay/ sound spelled ei, eigh and ey
LO: To spell words with /ay/ sound spelled ei, eigh and ey. Tuesday 28th March

3. 2 minutes to think of as many words as you can that have they /ay/ sound in them, but spelled with ey, ei and eigh. FOR EXAMPLE! “eight” or “obey”

4. Is there a rule?
Another week, another list of spellings without a rule!
You’ll just have to try and remember which spelling of /ay/ fits with each word!
For example, ‘rein’ uses ‘ei’, but ‘neighbour’ uses ‘eigh’. Be careful with which one you use!

5. Shmangman We’re going to play a game similar to ‘hangman’
The difference is that you must guess the letters in order before you can move on.
When do you think the game will be hardest? When do you think it will be easiest?

6. Spllngs wtht vwls
Your teacher will give you some words to spell on your white boards.
The difference is, you need to spell the words without using any vowels.
In case you forgot, vowels are a, e, i, o, u

7. Seriously Strange Spellings
This is a game to play in pairs!
One player will pick a word from this week’s spelling list.
They then write the word on their whiteboard, but with the letters in a mixed up order.
Your partner then has to work out what the word is. If they get it, they win a point. If they don’t you do! However, if you have misspelled the word, they get a point.
Look at your spelling list if you need help thinking of a word to use.

8. Silly Sentences
Try using some of these /ay/ sound spelled ‘ei’, ‘eigh’ or ‘ey’ words in a sentence. How many can you fit into one?
obey
prey
vein
rein
eight
weight
Can you add any more that aren’t on this list?

9. Can you create any words spelled ‘sc’ with the /s/ sound from this grid?? You can use each letter more than once! R E G Y O I P V N

10. Use your knowledge of the /ay/ sound splled ‘ei’, ‘eigh’ or ‘ey’ to identify whether these are right or wrong.
vein – right
obay - ????
weiht - ????
eight - ????
neihbour - ????
prey - ????

11. Use your knowledge of the /ay/ sound splled ‘ei’, ‘eigh’ or ‘ey’ to identify whether these are right or wrong.
vein – right
obay - wrong
weiht - wrong
eight - right
neihbour - wrong
prey - right

12. Group 1 Spellings eight prey reign obey neighbour vein unique league
mention
possession

13. Group 2 Spellings Adding –ed, –ing, –er and –est to a root word ending in –y with a consonant before it
copied
copier
happiest
cried
replying
tries
replies
separate
admission
magician

14. Tuesday 28th March Assembly
Adding –ed, –ing, –er and –est to a root word ending in –y with a consonant before it
Last week we looked at adding –es to nouns and verbs ending in –y.
Here’s the rule:
The y is changed to i before –ed, –er and – est are added, but not before –ing as this would result in ii.
Can you think of some examples? Think of the words we’ve been looking at over the past 2 weeks.
Let’s try this rule in a few activities!

15. Can you create any words with ‘ed’, ‘est’, ‘er’ or ‘ing’ ?P C R

16. Use your knowledge of our new spelling rule to identify whether these are right or wrong.
copyer – wrong
happyer - ????
replied - ????
copiing - ????
cried - ????
replying - ????

17. Use your knowledge of our new spelling rule to identify whether these are right or wrong.
copyer – wrong
happyer - wrong
replied - right
copiing - wrong
cried - right
replying - right