Spelling with Morphemes Intervention 2 - The y to i Rule - Whole School Literacy / Dyslexia SEN

Whole School Literacy: A Spelling intervention for 11-16’s with easy to follow Teacher’s Notes, a Student Worksheet pack and PowerPoint.
Reviews Dropping the ‘e’ rule and teaches the y to i rule.

Suitable for delivery by non-specialist teachers and assistants. Features a variety of engaging activities designed to equip pupils with the skills needed to spell a wide variety of subject-specific keywords. This unit builds on the Spelling with Morphemes and the Dropping the ‘e’ rule introduced in Intervention 1, and teaches the ‘y to i’ rule, e.g. how the ‘y’ in ready changes to ‘i’ in readiness.

Pupils learn to build and spell new words correctly by adding affixes to base morphemes and to separate them into their components. Learning to spell with morphemes is vastly more efficient than the endemic look-cover-write model. Far fewer, shorter words need to be memorised and students are equipped with the tools to construct longer, less familiar words with confidence. For example, the morpheme ceive is the basis for words such as: conceiving, inconceivably, receivership, deceiver, perceive, etc.

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