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    Daily Language Investigations for English Language Arts

    4.6 Verbs, Adjective, Adverbs and Spelling: Changing y to i        

    downloadable y to i worksheet  

     

    Consider the following data.

     

    carry      carried

    copy      copied

    enjoy      enjoyed

    supply    supplied

    cry           cried

    fly             flying

    supply    supplying

    study      studying

    spy          spying

    busy        busier

    greedy     greedier

    lonely     lonelier

    lucky      luckiest

    tiny         tiniest

    sly           slyly

    shy          shyly

     

    Write a rule that accounts for the cases when we change the y to i and when we leave the y unchanged.

     

    What form of word would be a counterexample to your theory?

     

    Come up with some more data to see if your theory needs to be revised.

     

     

    key words: spelling, verbs, adjective, adverb, suffixes, morphology

     

    CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.2f Use spelling patterns and generalizations (e.g., word families, position-based spellings, syllable patterns, ending rules, meaningful word parts) in writing words. 

    CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.4.2d Spell grade-appropriate words correctly, consulting references as needed. 

    CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.5.2e Spell grade-appropriate words correctly, consulting references as needed. 

     

    Here is this lesson as a pdf.