Book 2 • Week 8 • Level C • Student Practice Sheet

BOOK 2 • WEEK 8 Building Spelling Skills • Orthographic Mastery

LEVEL C • STUDENT PRACTICE SHEET

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1 Spelling Practice: Read each word aloud, analyze syllable splits and suffixes, and write neatly twice.

Plurals & Base Words Words 1–5

1. woman

2. women

3. children

4. final

5. finally

<ci> as /sh/ & Soft <c> Words 6–10

6. social

7. special

8. especially

9. since

10. sincerely

Squeeze Rule & Endings Words 11–15

11. barely

12. safety

13. statement

14. argue

15. arctic

2 Morphological & Phonic Sorting: Sort the 15 spelling words into the four rule categories below.

Irregular Plurals (3 words)

Squeeze Rule Suffixes (5 words)

/sh/ spelled <ci> (3 words)

Base & Ending Rules (4 words)

3 Homophone Distinctions: Complete each context sentence with wade or weighed.

Pair Distinctions: wade (walk in water) • weighed (measured heaviness)

a. The hiker had to across the cool shallow mountain stream.

b. The grocery clerk carefully the bag of fresh oranges on the scale.

📚 Rules to Remember • Week 8

Rule 1 • Irregular Plurals

Irregular plurals change internal vowels: wo•man → wo•men, child → chil•dren.

Rule 2 • Squeeze Rule

Add a consonant suffix to a word without changing the base (fi•nal•ly, sin•cere•ly, bare•ly, safe•ty, state•ment).

Rule 3 & [Deb] 4 • /sh/ as <ci>

/sh/ spelled ci after a vowel at the start of any syllable except the first (so•cial, spe•cial); [Deb] /sh/ can be ci, ti, si.

Rule 5 & 6 • Word Endings

Silent e keeps words from ending in u/v (ar•gue); /k/ spelled c at end of multi-syllable words (arc•tic).