diner
dinner
messy
silly
rotten
swimming
sorry
pillow
biter
bitter
happy
running
Spelling toolkit for words containing double consonants
◆ Double the letter after a short vowel in the middle of words, for example
in the word ‘tap’ the a is a short vowel sound, so ‘tap’ becomes ‘tapping’. Notice
that the last consonant is doubled.
◆ No words use hh, jj, kk, qq, vv, ww, xx
diner
dinner
messy
silly
rotten
swimming
sorry
pillow
biter
bitter
happy
running
Spelling toolkit for words containing double consonants
◆Double the letter after a short vowel in the middle of words, for example
in the word ‘tap’ the a is a short vowel sound, so ‘tap’ becomes ‘tapping’. Notice
that the last consonant is doubled.
◆ No words use hh, jj, kk, qq, vv, ww, xx
diner
dinner
messy
silly
rotten
swimming
sorry
pillow
biter
bitter
happy
running
Spelling toolkit for words containing double consonants
◆Double the letter after a short vowel in the middle of words, for example
in the word ‘tap’ the a is a short vowel sound, so ‘tap’ becomes ‘tapping’. Notice
that the last consonant is doubled.
◆ No words use hh, jj, kk, qq, vv, ww, xx
addition
adjoin
adjacent
adjust
affix
affection
also
although
alert
ablaze
abide
aloft
Spelling toolkit for words that contain the prefixes ‘ad’, ‘af’, ‘al’ and ‘a’
◆ A prefix is a group of letters that appear at the beginning of words that change the meaning of
the root word. For example, the word almighty literally means all might, or having all the power.
◆ ad means ‘towards’ – just add this to root words, e.g. adverb – the root word is verb.
◆ af means ‘tending towards’ – double the f of the root word.
◆ al means ‘all’ – the ‘l’ is dropped, it is also dropped if the root word begins with an ‘l’, e.g. alone –
the root word being lone.
◆ a means ‘in a state of’ (the words above have a sense of ‘on’ or ‘in’) – just add a. Aground means on
ground.
addition
adjoin
adjacent
adjust
affix
affection
also
although
alert
ablaze
abide
aloft
Spelling toolkit for words that contain the prefixes ‘ad’, ‘af’, ‘al’ and ‘a’
◆ A prefix is a group of letters that appear at the beginning of words that change the meaning of
the root word. For example, the word almighty literally means all might, or having all the power.
◆ ad means ‘towards’ – just add this to root words, e.g. adverb – the root word is verb.
◆ af means ‘tending towards’ – double the f of the root word.
◆ al means ‘all’ – the ‘l’ is dropped, it is also dropped if the root word begins with an ‘l’, e.g. alone –
the root word being lone.
◆ a means ‘in a state of’ (the words above have a sense of ‘on’ or ‘in’) – just add a. Aground means on
ground.
corrosion
explosion
possession
station
demonstration
position
petition
intuition
revolution
institution
constitution
contribution
Spelling toolkit for words that end in the ‘shun’ sound: cian, sion, ssion, tion
◆ You can search for ‘words ending in cian/sion/ssion/tion’ in a search engine and this
should find lists of words containing the ‘shun’ sound at the end.
◆ cian – usually appear at the end of root words ending in c; they are commonly found in
the names of jobs.
◆ tion – the most common ending of ‘shun’ words.
◆ sion – usually added to base words that end in d/de or s/se (e.g. explode becomes
explosion)
◆ ssion – in these words you can hear the ‘sh’ sound, e.g. session sounds like seshun
◆ ation – you can really heard the ‘a’ sound in words that contain this ‘shun’ ending, e.g.
nation.
◆ otion/ution/etion – these shun endings appear at the end of base words which contain a
clearly pronounced vowel, e.g. completion – you can hear the vowel sound ‘e’ in this word.
◆ ution – appears in words longer than three syllables, e.g. distribution.
corrosion
explosion
possession
station
demonstration
position
petition
intuition
revolution
institution
constitution
contribution
Spelling toolkit for words that end in the ‘shun’ sound: cian, sion, ssion, tion
◆ You can search for ‘words ending in cian/sion/ssion/tion’ in a search engine and this
should find lists of words containing the ‘shun’ sound at the end.
◆ cian – usually appear at the end of root words ending in c; they are commonly found in
the names of jobs.
◆ tion – the most common ending of ‘shun’ words.
◆ sion – usually added to base words that end in d/de or s/se (e.g. explode becomes
explosion)
◆ ssion – in these words you can hear the ‘sh’ sound, e.g. session sounds like seshun
◆ ation – you can really heard the ‘a’ sound in words that contain this ‘shun’ ending, e.g.
nation.
◆ otion/ution/etion – these shun endings appear at the end of base words which contain a
clearly pronounced vowel, e.g. completion – you can hear the vowel sound ‘e’ in this word.
◆ ution – appears in words longer than three syllables, e.g. distribution.