This week the spelling chant to practise with your child is ‘drop the y for an i’. The route word of these spellings has an ly added (or fully) and the y is replaced with an i. For example, cheeky becomes cheekily.
There are lots of types of words where it’s necessary to drop the y for an i. In this list, all the words are adverbs. That means they all describe a verb.
| LO: drop the y for an i |
| cheekily |
| funnily |
| crazily |
| lazily |
| healthily |
| luckily |
| hurriedly |
| beautifully |