Book 2 • Week 22 • Level B • Student Practice Sheet

BOOK 2 • WEEK 22 Building Spelling Skills • Orthographic Mastery

LEVEL B • STUDENT PRACTICE SHEET

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Level: B

1 Orthographic Handwriting Practice: Read each word aloud, observe how base <y> changes to <i> before suffixes, and write it cleanly twice.

-ies & tried (Words 1–5)

1 cries

2 coun•tries

3 fam•il•ies

4 stor•ies

5 tried

-ied & -ier (Words 6–10)

6 hur•ried

7 car•ried

8 stud•ied

9 pret•tier

10 ear•lier

-iest, -ily, -iness, -iful (Words 11–15)

11 eas•iest

12 luck•i•ly

13 hap•pi•ness

14 busi•ness

15 beau•ti•ful

2 Phonics & Suffix Sorting: Group words by plural/present <-ies>, past tense <-ied>, degree <-ier/-iest>, and <-ily/-iness/-iful>.

Ending <-ies> (4 words)

Past Tense <-ied> (4 words)

Degree <-ier/-iest> (3 words)

<-ily, -iness, -iful> (4 words)

3 Homophone Distinctions: Choose the correct homophone (pain or pane) to complete each sentence.

Homophone Pair: pain (physical hurt or suffering) • pane (sheet of glass in a window)

a. A cold winter draft blew straight through the cracked glass of the front window.

b. The runner felt a sharp, sudden in his calf muscle after sprinting up the hill.

c. He felt brief in his knuckles when he accidentally tapped the fragile window .

📚 Rules to Remember • Week 22

Rule 1 • The Change Rule for <y>

When a word ends in a single consonant + y, change y to i before adding any suffix that does not begin with i (cry → cries, hurry → hurried).

Rule 2 • Degree Suffixes <-er> and <-est>

Comparative and superlative forms also follow the rule: pretty → prettier, early → earlier, easy → easiest.

Rule 3 • Suffixes <-ness> and <-ful>

Noun and adjective suffixes trigger the change: happy → happiness, busy → business, beauty → beautiful.

Rule 4 • Homophone Distinctions: <pain> vs. <pane>

Pain (ache/hurt, spelled with vowel team ai) vs. pane (window glass, spelled with split vowel-e a_e).