1. Do Now: Let’s review spelling tips and tricks!
Learning Target: I can become a master speller by following spelling rules
Do Now: Let’s review spelling tips and tricks!

2. NOTE!!
English spelling can be frustrating for native speakers, and especially for non-native speakers.
English is consistently inconsistent; therefore, following rules and suggestions offered will help you become a Master Speller and will help you to be able to find exceptions to rules.

3. Follow These Study Tips
Practice writing words
Break words up in syllables
Look the meaning up in a dictionary
Review for min. daily
Create a sentence using spelling words
Create a story using spelling words

4. i before e, except after c
RULE ONE
i before e, except after c
achieve, believe, bier, brief, chief, fiend, friend, grief, grieve, hygiene, patience, pierce, priest, thief
ceiling, conceive, conceit, deceive, deceit, perceive, receipt, receive

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6. Exceptions to RULE ONE:
words that make the “a” sound
beige, freight, neighbor, sleigh, vein, weight, and weigh
Exceptions that do not have a pattern
either, feint, foreign, forfeit, height, leisure, neither, seize, weird

7. RULE TWO Change y to i when adding an ending supply supplies supplied
supplying
worry
worries
worried
worrying
merry
merrier

8. Exception to RULE TWO When –ing is added, keep y.
cry
crying
cries
cried
study
studying
studies
studied
When a vowel comes before the y , keep y
obey
obeyed
obeying
obeys
obeyer
say
said
saying
says
sayer

9. RULE FOUR Drop silent e if the ending begins with a vowel.
advance + -ing = advancing
surprise + -ing = surprising
Keep silent e if the ending begins with a consonant
advance + ment = advancement
like + ness = likeness
If a vowel comes before silent e DROP silent e
argue + -ment = argument
true + -ly = truly
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RULE FIVE
Doubling final consonant when adding –ed, -ing, or a suffix
Single final consonant
And follows a single vowel
And the suffix begins with a vowel
One syllable or is stressed on the last syllable: In the examples the “trol” syllable in control is stressed, while the “en” of enter is stressed.
Control
controlling
controlled
controllable
enter
entering
entered
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11. EXAMPLES: ADMIT + -ed = ADMITTED FLAP + -ed = FLAPPED
ADMIT ends with a consonant
Follows a vowel
Accented on the last syllable
Therefore double the t before adding an -ing or –ed
admitting
admitted
FLAP + -ed = FLAPPED
The word FLAP is a one syllable word

12. to double the consonant
Examples when NOT
to double the consonant
When there are two syllables with the stress on the first syllable, do not double the consonant before.
COUNSEL + -ing = COUNSELING
When there are two vowels together before the consonant, do not double the consonant.
DESPAIR + -ed = DESPAIRED

13. Change the -c to -ck panic panicking picnic picnicking RULE SIX
Words that end in -c
Change the -c to -ck
panic panicking
picnic picnicking

14. -l, -m, & -p exception With some verbs ending in -l, -m, and p
you can either double the consonant or
not.
travel traveling or travelling
program programing or programming
worship worshiping or worshipping

15. Silent Letter Combinations
Some words have silent letter combinations. You
must memorize these patterns.
gn, pn, kn= n
gnome pneumonia knife
rh, wr = r
rhyme wrestle
pt, ght = t
ptomaine height
ps, sc = s
psalm science
wh = h
whole 

16. Good Luck! Becoming a Master Speller takes a personal commitment and
Finding your own method to add this important skill to your writing arsenal.
Let’s practice!
Good Luck!