This week’s spellings are all to do with changing words that end in a y to make other related words. The rule is usually called “drop the y for i”.
It seems like there are 20 words to learn, but if children learn the patterns of the root words, they’ll soon see there are really only five spellings with different endings – it should be a lot easier than it might seem at first.
The test will only use some of words, not all. We’re back to groups A, B and C…
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Drop the ‘y’ for an ‘i’ (A) |
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This week, we’re learning how to change words that end in a y to make other related words. |
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adjective |
‘more’ |
‘most’ |
adverb |
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hungry |
hungrier |
hungriest |
hungrily |
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pretty |
prettier |
prettiest |
prettily |
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windy |
windier |
windiest |
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heavy |
heavier |
heaviest |
heavily |
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Drop the ‘y’ for an ‘i’ (B) |
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This week, we’re learning how to change words that end in a y to make other related words. |
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adjective |
‘more’ |
‘most’ |
adverb |
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hungry |
hungrier |
hungriest |
hungrily |
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pretty |
prettier |
prettiest |
prettily |
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windy |
windier |
windiest |
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heavy |
heavier |
heaviest |
heavily |
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Drop the ‘y’ for an ‘i’ (C) |
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This week, we’re learning how to change words that end in a y to make other related words. High frequency words at the bottom. |
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adjective |
‘more’ |
‘most’ |
adverb |
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hungry |
hungrier |
hungriest |
hungrily |
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pretty |
prettier |
prettiest |
prettily |
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heavy |
heavier |
heaviest |
heavily |
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high frequency |
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made |
laugh |
every |
probably |
very |
