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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Other

The Schoolhouse: Lesson 16: Spelling Rule Plural Endings

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Learn about making words plural by adding "es" through examples, sentences, and practice exercises.
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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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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Spelling Supports Reading

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Many readers are puzzled by the rules and exceptions of spelling. Research has shown, however, that learning to spell and learning to read rely on much of the same underlying knowledge. Read this article to learn more about the...
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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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