Spelling Patterns

1. In our many writing activities we are constantly coming up with words that are difficult to spell and new words that we have not used in our paragraphs.

As many of you have seen in the weekly spelling tests, it can be helpful to group words together according to various patterns.  Remember the week 9 test that covered a collection of words with 'qu', 'squ', 'qui'? Well there are many other patters and grouping that we could make to help us in our spelling practice.

Let's take a look at some websites that show us the proper way of spelling common words. Also, we are going to look at patterns of words that have double letters.

Commonly Misspelled Words

Double Letters

Five Letter Words with Double Letters


2. Check out this photo! What do you think is happening, or what happened to the earth? Write a story describing what you see or how you understand the photo.

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