Investigating the ‘ee’ sound spelt ‘ie’ or ‘ei’

English

Spelling words with the suffix -ant

Spelling words with the suffixes -ance and -ancy

Spelling words with the suffix -ent

Spelling words with the suffixes -ence and -ency

Investigating the letter string ‘fer’

Applying spelling rules with the letter string ‘fer’

Spelling a selection of homophones

Spelling further homophones and near-homophones

Applying the rule ‘i before e except after c’

Other sounds represented by the letter string ‘ie’

Other sounds represented by the letter string ‘ei’

In this unit, pupils learn further noun suffixes, letter strings and homophones.  In 'Etymology and prefixes', pupils learn the grammar and spelling conventions associated with prefixes.

In ‘Verb, adjective and noun suffixes’, pupils learnt the grammar and spelling conventions associated with verb, adjective and noun suffixes. In this unit, pupils learn further noun suffixes, letter strings and homophones.

In this unit, pupils learn spelling and grammar conventions associated with more noun suffixes like -ant, -ance, -ancy, -ent, -ence and -ency, reviewing how the addition of a suffix can affect the grammar of a word, for example its word class. Pupils investigate letter strings and homophones.

Noun suffixes, letter strings and homophones

Match the words linked to the rule 'i before e, except after c'.

Select the words that apply the rule 'i before e, except after c'.

Select the correct spelling of the word.  

Correct the spelling of the word in bold in the sentence.   The police caught the **theef**.

Correct the spelling of the word in bold in the sentence.   What is your **bileef**?

Choose the correct 'ee' spelling that goes in these words.

Match the grapheme representing the phoneme 'ee' to where they commonly appear in a word.

Select the words which contain the long vowel **ee** sound.

often at the beginning or the end of a word

Match the grapheme representing the phoneme 'ee' sound to where it commonly appears in a word.

Correct the spelling of the word in bold in the following sentence.  She smiled **happiley** during the performance.  

Choose the spellings that can represent the phoneme 'ee'.

Investigating the ‘ee’ sound spelt ‘ie’ or ‘ei’

Lesson outcome