Spelling Rules 51 Posters Explaining the English Writing System

This set of 51 posters includes visual explanations of every major English spelling rule, convention, and pattern.
Teach your students how spelling really works! With a focus on meaning, word structure, and graphemes/phonemes - etymology, morphology, and phonology - it is more than just phonics.

Explanations include:

1. How spelling works: 3 questions to help you spell:
   *What does the word mean? (what are the related words?)
   *How is it built? (prefixes, bases, suffixes - and the joins in between)
   *What letters can you use to show how it sounds? (What are the rules for the use of each letter?)
2. The spelling of the base stays the same even when pronunciation changes.
3. Where a word comes from will affect its spelling (etymology).
4. The history of a word and how it has changed over time will affect its spelling.
5. Silent letters - using related words that are connected in meaning.
6. Homophones - words with different meanings will have different spellings.
7. How words are built (prefixes, bases, suffixes).
8. Changes that can happen when you add a suffix.
9. Vowels
10. Consonants
11. Prefixes
12. Adding consonant suffixes
13. Consonant suffix examples
14. Adding vowel suffixes
15. When vowel suffixes cause doubling
16. When vowel suffixes take away the <e>
17. Vowel suffix examples
18. When to use the plural -s or -es suffix.
19. The -ed suffix and its 3 sounds: /t/, /id/ and /d/.
20. Compound words
21. <C> or <K> to represent /k/ at the beginning of a word.
22. When <C> represents /k/ and when it represents /s/
23. Words that start with <K> not followed by <e>, <i> or <y>.
24. Writing the /k/ sound at the end of a word.
25. When to use <K> or <CK> at the end of a word.
26. When to use <CH> or <TCH> at the end of a word.
27. When to use <GE> or <DGE> at the end of a word.
28. When to double the <L> at the end of a word.
29. When to double the <Z> at the end of a word.
30. When to double the <F> at the end of a word.
31. When to double the <S> at the end of a word.
32. You can’t end a word with <V>.
33. Why you can’t write <UU>, <VV> or <UV>.
34. You can’t end an English word with <J>.
35. Why some words do end with <U>, <V>, <I> or <J>.
36. The only word that ends with <U> is <YOU>!
37. The only complete English word that ends with <I> is <I>!
38. Using <Y> or <IE> at the end of a word, instead of <I>.
39. Why and how <I> and <Y> share their job.
40. When to replace a <Y> with an <I>.
41. Reasons to keep a <Y> in the middle of a word.
42. Why we don’t write <ii>.
43. Changing <Y> to an <I> when adding a suffix.
44. <Q> is always followed by <U> to make <QU>.
45. Don’t write the same letter three times in a row.
46. Why <VV> and <UU> = <W>
47. Why <W> does not double.
48. Why <X> does not double.
49. The many jobs of the single, silent <e> at the end of a word.
50. Digraphs and Trigraphs.
51. The Trigraph <igh>.