Book 2 • Week 11 • Level B • Student Practice Sheet

BOOK 2 • WEEK 11 Building Spelling Skills • Orthographic Mastery

LEVEL B • STUDENT PRACTICE SHEET

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1 Spelling Practice: Read each word aloud, identify the base word where silent e was dropped, and write neatly twice.

Drop <e> + <-ed> Words 1–5

1. tired

2. scared

3. liked

4. lived

5. used to

Drop <e> + <-ing> (A) Words 6–10

6. using

7. shining

8. dining

9. taking

10. making

Drop <e> + <-ing> (B) Words 11–15

11. moving

12. giving

13. living

14. hoping

15. coming

2 Morphological Sorting: Sort the 15 spelling words into the four suffix categories below.

Drop <e> + <-ed> (5 words)

Drop <e> + <-ing> (A) (4 words)

Drop <e> + <-ing> (B) (3 words)

Drop <e> + <-ing> (C) (3 words)

3 Homophone Distinctions: Complete each context sentence with pair, pare, or pear.

Triple Homophone Keys: pair (two items) • pare (trim/peel skin) • pear (sweet fruit)

a. She washed a sweet, ripe yellow to eat as a healthy afternoon snack.

b. The chef used a small kitchen paring knife to the thin potato skin.

c. He laced up his brand-new of soccer cleats before the championship game.

📚 Rules to Remember • Week 11

Rule 1 • The Drop Rule

When a word ends with a silent e, drop the e before adding a vowel suffix (tire + ed = tired, make + ing = making).

Rule 2 • Vowel Suffixes <-ed> & <-ing>

Because -ed and -ing start with vowels, silent e is not needed to keep preceding vowels long (shi•ning, di•ning).

Rule 3 • Contrast with 1-1-1 Doubling

Silent e drop rule gives single consonant (hoping from hope), unlike doubling (hopping from hop).

Rule 4 • Triple Homophones

Distinguish identical sounds: pair (two matching things), pare (trim/peel), and pear (fruit).