Ideas for practice with "spelling rules"?

[HappyGrace]

Dd just needs some practice working with spelling rules-such as change y to i and add ending, drop the e to add ing, etc. Are there any online worksheets for this, or a simple workbook I can get (MCP Plaid? Something else?) Thanks!

[Beth in Central TX]

In the grammar stage, each boy had a notebook, and I would use spelling and grammar rules as copywork assignments. Here's a website for the rules; I'm sure there are many others out there:

http://www.dyslexia.org/spelling_rules.shtml

I had another website that I liked better, but I can't find it now.

[Lori D.]

We do this several times a week on the whiteboard. Using colored markers makes different aspects stand out. Tell a little story to make the idea stick; example: "when you add an ending that starts with a vowel, like "-ing", to a word that ends in a vowel, like "hope", the vowels both want to do the talking and get in a fight, so you have to drop the vowel at the end of the word and then add the ending."

This also gives you a chance to practice:
- plurals (and irregular ones!)
- past tenses (and irregular ones!)
- homophones
- vowel patterns
- seeing a root word and adding additional syllables, a prefix, a suffix, an ending or another word to make a compound word
- syllabication rules
- seeing a smaller word inside a bigger word
- etc.!

Warm regards, Lori D.

[Lori D.]

Mary Pecci's "Super Seatwork: Word Skills" is a gentle "handmade" looking workbook that covers all of those rules, and more. See it at Rainbow Resource catalog; I believe there are a few sample pages, plus the entire table of contents so you can see what's covered. : )