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Reading From Scratch: Spelling Rules

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
The "Reading from Scratch" site provides a list of spelling rules with examples.
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English Club

English Club: Spelling Rules: Ible/ Able

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A list of commonly used words with the -ible suffix followed by rules for using -ible and -able suffixes. It also provides a link for an -ible/-able quiz and links to other spelling rules.
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Other

Spelling Rules: Words Ending in Y

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Chart with rules and examples for adding suffixes to words that end in -y.
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Patsy Stevens

Garden of Praise: Musical Spelling Rules

For Students 2nd - 5th
Use these clever songs to help students learn basic spelling rules. Sheet music, as well as audio files, are available for each of 4 songs. Scroll down the page for interactive practice activity.
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BBC

Bbc: Skillswise: Plurals and Spelling Rules

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
The rules for spelling plural words and using them properly in English are made fun and easy with this BBC Skillswise worksheet for students.
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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Spelling

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An explanation of the importance of spelling. Links to additional information about specific spelling rules are provided.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: When Should I Spell Out Numbers?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page focuses on when to write figures and numbers in writing; it provides the rules for both general writing and for technical, scientific, and complex writing. Examples are provided.
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Ministerio de Educacion, Cultura y Deporte (Spain)

Cnice: Ejercicios De Ortografia

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice spelling Spanish words -- particularly letters with tricky sounds (v,b; y,ll; etc.). Click the corresponding letter on the keyboard to launch an activity -- then try to correctly spell 15-20 words. You can check your answers...
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Fact Monster

Fact Monster: Spelling Plural Nouns

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
A chart that shows general rules for regular and irregular plural formations for nouns, plus a list of some exceptions.
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Towson University

Towson University: Online Writing Support: Capitalization Rules

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This entry provides the rules for capitalization, examples of each rule, and exceptions where they exist.L.11-12.2 Cap/Punc/Spell
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BBC

Bbc: Skillswise: Spelling: Prefixes and Suffixes

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Skillswise site focuses on prefixes and suffixes. Included are a video about why learning about these additions to root words is important, fact sheets and worksheets for instruction. The Skillswise sites from BBC are geared to...
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Formula Rules

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart will help students explore spelling patterns of consonants and formulate rules.

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