This is going to be a short post but it’s accompanied by a four page pdf to get you started.
It’s another chance to stress three important things about teaching spelling.
1. You can avoid potentially confusing rules if you have consistent spelling conversations about
syllables
sounds
graphemes
endings
suffixes
2. Don’t teach only the exceptions. Let your students experience the fact that, most of the time, you add -ly without changing anything. Hearing without practising makes it just another rule to remember.
Make sure they work with those words that show up on ‘hard to spell’ lists that can be found all over the internet.
definitely
extremely
immediately
sincerely
3. Get to know the exceptions before you teach them. You will discover further quirks and exceptions together but get confident about the 3 main ones:
words ending in the <le> syllable possible/possibly
words ending in the <y> syllable (representing the /ee/ sounds) speedy/speedily
words ending in the <ic> syllable terrific/terrifically
