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Drop the ‘e’ when adding ‘ing’
Words ending with ‘ly’
‘i’ comes before ‘e’ when the sound is ‘ee’. Group 3:‘i’ before ‘e’, except
after ‘c’, when the sound is ‘ee’
Double the final consonant when adding a suffix which begins with a vowel
Change ‘y’ to ‘i’
Words with silent letters
‘tion’ sounds like ‘shun’
‘le’ sounds like ‘ul’ or ‘el’
‘ight’ sounds like ‘ite’ or ‘ate’
‘ible’ or ‘able’?
contractions
‘ough’
soft ‘c’
double consonants
‘en’ or ‘on’?
‘or’ words
soft ‘g’
Science spellings
‘dis’ words
Mixture of spellings
‘ex’
‘aught’
‘que’
‘sign’
‘ph’ sounds like ‘f’
Group 1: ic’ and ‘cian’ Groups 2 & 3: ‘cian’ means expert
‘ure’
‘full’ becomes ‘ful’
Group 1: Confusables Groups 2 & 3: Tricky words
Prefixes: aero, micro, bi, aqua, auto, audi, trans, mil, tri, cir